Details

Title

Portrait Mode [Frieze London #02]

Artist/Maker

Nina Beier (Danish, born 1975)

Date

2012

Medium

Found garment in wooden frame

Dimensions

68 7/8 × 45 5/16 × 2 3/8 inches

Credit

Gift of David and Kim Schrader

Accession #

2016.231

Location

Currently not on view

Portrait Mode (Frieze London #02) is a distorted assemblage of found clothing, so tightly pressed under glass that the garments lose their original identities and are instead transformed into prismatic abstractions of varying human- made animal prints. By blurring cultural markers, Beier’s work hovers between the tradition of historical landscape painting and the pixelated flatness of modern smartphone imagery.