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In English, “to fashion” means to make something in the likeness of something else. I take images from fashion magazines to create sculpture resembling articles of clothing, which I then re-photograph. Using non-traditional materials like paper, oil, and staples, I transform, fragment, and reassemble images of idealized faces and bodies used to peddle products, mimetically reproducing them in garment form. This process builds upon the ideas of the Pictures Generation, Ismaïl Bahri, Jean Baudrillard, and Robert Rauschenberg’s Combines, with the principal difference being the reintroduction of a three-dimensional aspect before returning to the two-dimensional picture plane (putting them en abyme). What remains is a copy of a copy, a false copy, a simulacrum: a theoretical fashion object. I call this series “Fashionings.”





                             


  • Fashionings
  • Series Papier










Fashionings 11, 2022
Magazine paper, staples, oil
Untitled #51 (Fashioning 11 worn by Sâal), 2024







  • Slide 1: Fashioning 2,
  • Magazine paper, oil, rivets, safety pins
  • Slide 2:  Fashioning 7, 2021
  • Magazine paper, glue, oil, hangers, zip ties
  • Slide 3: Fashioning 14, 2024
  • Magazine paper, staples, oil, hangers, zip ties
  • Slide 4: In the manner of a cape, 2020
  • Magazine paper, scotch tape




Untitled #34 (Fashioning 9 worn by Poppy), 2024




Biography

Amir Tikriti was born in Los Angeles, USA, and currently resides and works between there and Paris, France. He holds a degree in English Literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and a law doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law in Malibu, California. His work has been exhibited at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, L’Institut Catholique de Paris, and 0fr. Galerie. He was awarded the Eyes on Talents Photography & Sustainability Grand Prix, with a prominent exhibition at the Hôtel de Ville in Paris, and was a finalist for the Bourse du Talent in France. His self-published editions have been showcased at la Galerie UQO in Gatineau, Canada; 0fr. in Paris; Offprint-Luma in Arles, France; Tipi Bookshop in Brussels, Belgium; and Artbook @ Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, California.