Take 2
Summer 2006
Gloss and matte “Friskfilm” masking film for airbrush, masking adhesive, acrylic
Overall dimensions: 54 × 80 × 0.5 cm
Individual dimensions: 1 × (50 × 31.25 × 0.1 cm), 1 × (54 × 31.25 × 0.5 cm)
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Two surfaces, born of the same material, face one another.
One, glossy, yields to the wall — it embraces it, without reserve.
The other, matte, resists. Its contact is partial, uncertain.
To hold, it needs support — a slender band, visible like a brace,
a thread stretched between falling and holding.
What separates them is not strength but nuance:
the almost imperceptible passage between adhesion and release.
The glossy clings; the matte breathes.
Both exist within the same equation,
where fragility does not contradict precision.
Here, the prosthesis is not a mark of weakness, but of persistence.
It conceals nothing — it reveals.
And in this silent pair, it may be the supported film that teaches the most:
that there is no frailty in needing connection,
and that sometimes the beauty of a material lies precisely
in its way of not holding alone.
Takes 3b & 4b (from left to right)
Summer 2006
Gloss and matte “Friskfilm” masking film for airbrush, masking adhesive, acrylic
Overall dimensions: 54 × 80 × 0.5 cm
Individual dimensions: 1 × (50 × 31.25 × 0.1 cm), 1 × (54 × 31.25 × 0.5 cm)
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Extract 2
Summer 2006
Gloss and matte “Friskfilm” masking film for airbrush, masking adhesive, acrylic
Overall dimensions: 54 × 80 × 0.5 cm
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Extract 3b
Summer 2006
Gloss and matte “Friskfilm” masking film for airbrush, masking adhesive, acrylic
Overall dimensions: 54 × 80 × 0.5 cm
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France
Extract 3c
Summer 2006
Gloss and matte “Friskfilm” masking film for airbrush, masking adhesive, acrylic
Overall dimensions: 54 × 80 × 0.5 cm
Photography: Christian Creutz, Strasbourg, France