Depix

Four composite portraits made by superimposing several photographed faces, thus creating a new fictitious face. The composition is made in digital post-production, by assembling Photoshop layers. To generate these layers, the first step was to photograph a tarpaulin with a pixelated camouflage pattern – the type used by paramilitary groups. Each of the five pixelated colours of the camouflage was then isolated to create a corresponding layer for each person’s face. Thus, the part of a woman’s portrait corresponding to the khaki pixels is superimposed on the part of another woman’s portrait corresponding to the brown pixels, and so on for the other colours. Through this protocol, Depix evokes the collective nature of the villagers’ resistance, as well as a displacement of the struggle onto the territory of digital networks.