Portrait Mode [Frieze London #02]
Nina Beier
Danish, born 1975
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.