Kyle Meyer

Lives and works in Venice, Metropolitan City of Venice, Italy

Artist statement

My foundation of making is rooted in photography shaped by a central question: How can a digital image serve as an authentic human experience when it is produced, and ubiquitously reproduced, through mechanical means such as the camera, computer, and printer? This question has led me to explore the tactile potential of photography. At the center of my practice is a tension between control and unpredictability. Through hand-dyeing, weaving, and embroidery, I establish structure, while pigments, materials, and environment introduce chance and variation. These processes allow the work to evolve beyond the image itself. Hidden histories, trauma, identity, and the ways environments shape memory are embedded within each piece. By hand-dyeing fabrics and papers with human-bodies, architecture, and natural materials, I transform surfaces into records of decisive moments. Environmental conditions and decay become active collaborators, embedding the qualities of place within the work. Hand-weaving combines two methods of documentation: physical imprinting on fabric and photographic documentation, creating three-dimensional maps of traces and impressions. Materials derived from the photographic imagery itself are incorporated into these processes, creating a recursive, hand-worked relationship between image and object. Through this evolving practice, material, technique, place, and experience continually inform one another. I see myself not simply as an image-maker, but one whom...

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