Discover the creation in interiors
Artwork details
- Printing : Analogue on Canvas , Wood
- Framing : Framing on request
- Dimensions : 27.6x19.7in
About this artwork
Through this piece, I explore the experience of feeling like an outsider, reduced to an accent, a label, a presence that makes others uncomfortable. The weight of prejudice, everyday racism, and silent violence erode identity until you doubt your place in… the world. The work arises from this tension: between disappearing and resisting.
I have worked with over 55 original Polaroids using the Emulsion Lift technique, detaching the image from its support and reconstructing it on a new surface. This process reflects the constant fragmentation and recomposition experienced by migrants.
In the midst of a black and white landscape, a single colored flower emerges as a symbol of resistance: the persistence of identity, the beauty that survives, and the need to continue existing with dignity.
Macarena Stipetic
Spain
Credentials
- Works on commission
Using the delicate technique of 'Polaroid Emulsion Lift', Macarena rescues analog photographs from their rigid support, giving them a new, organic, and vibrant existence. In an act of manual alchemy, she peels off the emulsion—the very skin of the image—and transplants it onto handcrafted cotton canvases. The image folds and acquires a unique three-dimensionality, transforming into a physical vestige of memory.
Her works are unique pieces that celebrate the beauty of the ephemeral. Macarena's art invites us to inhabit the poetic space between what we try to hold onto and what fades away; a refuge where the image becomes pure feeling.