Claire Pestaille
Crystalline
![]() Milada Mladova (New York 1939)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage. Unique 23 x 18 cm 2010 | ![]() Anandaby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper photo collage. Unique 2017 |
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![]() Flashchenstrahlinge.by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Gitaby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper photo collage. Unique 2017 |
![]() Angelicaby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Gita (II)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage. Unique 2017 |
![]() The Screenwriterby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Stellaby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper photo collage. Unique 2017 |
![]() The Authorby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Neon Noirby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Laurenby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 2010 | ![]() Neon Noirby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Echinidea Igelsterneby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Cubist Epochby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Samsaraby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Mourning Electraby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 2010 |
![]() The Sign of the crossby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Isabellaby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Amberby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Diamond Cut (starlet (I)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Pentacrinusby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 32.5 x 19.5 cm 2010 | ![]() Chrystal Time (Eva)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Eliette Von Karajan, (Austria 1958)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Collage Unique 21 x 30 cm 2010 | ![]() Candelabraby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper Collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Ginger Rogers (New York) 1936by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Sorellaby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Carmen Dell' Orifice (New York 1947)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage. Unique 22.5 x 18 cm 2010 | ![]() Isabelleby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Chrystal Time (Loren)BY CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper Collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm Framed 2010 | ![]() Maria Calas, (New York)1952by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 24.5 x 21 cm 2010 |
![]() Adorationby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Chrystal Time (Diana)CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 2010 |
![]() Bellaby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Marilyn and the Matrixby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 25 cm 2010 |
![]() The Brideby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 28.4 x 21 cm 2010 | ![]() Mirror Mirror (1)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 26 x 20 cm 2010 |
![]() Mirror Mirror (2)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper Collage Unique 27.5 x 17.3 cm 2010 | ![]() Mirror Mirror (3)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper Collage Unique 27 x 16.6 cm 2010 |
![]() Mirror Mirror (4)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 32.5 x 19.5 cm 2010 | ![]() Mirror Mirror (5)by CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 25.6 x 18.6 cm 2010 |
![]() Primaveraby CLAIRE PESTAILLE Paper collage Unique 2010 |
Crystalline
The Crystalline project, inspired by Deleuze's writings on crystal-time in Cinema II, is a collection of disrupted vintage photographs, film stills and studio portraiture of women from various periods in history. The project started by my interest in the golden age of Hollywood and the stylised studio portraiture which was adopted to advertise actors and the current film which they were promoting. These portraits become geometrically divided, squared, cut and duplicated. The images are reassembled like a jigsaw puzzle within the format of a grid in order to produce a fractured circuit or a simultaneous double. The grid becomes both the compositional and conceptual device for the theatrics of the deconstruction of the collage to take place, an arena where identity is questioned, formed, reconstructed and at times made unrecognisable. The Crystalline project started in 2010, however the process of collecting the images probably started back in my teenage years and is a process/project/collection which is on going. Recently I have created more art work for this collection and the grid format has altered; triangles and spheres have appeared and a more relaxed grid like construction has begun to form.