EXHIBITION STATEMENT

These images exist as silent excerpts—portraits that are not of a specific person but of faces that have evolved through a process of combining, re-combining, and altering features. They are suspended between familiarity and anonymity, inviting introspection.

Reproduced through image transfer, these works straddle the line between printmaking and photography, incorporating the tactile qualities of both. At times distant, at times intimate, they hint at a larger, unseen context while remaining enigmatic and self-contained.

A pivotal moment in Anne Sargent’s practice came two years ago when she experimented with adding a plexiglass topsheet to an existing image. This intervention became the foundation for Taking Shape: Connected Moments, her 2023 solo exhibition, and continues to inform her work. The topsheet allows her to manipulate images through layering, obscuring, and revealing, creating compositions that shift between presence and absence.

Sargent’s artistic process is one of continuous articulation and synthesis—of ideas, intent, and technique. The human figure remains her central voice, framed within a minimalist aesthetic. She searches for images that convey the essential: raw, exposed, and emotionally honest. The people she portrays exist in a frozen moment, unembellished and unexplained, yet fully engaged with the viewer.

In Twice Removed, these layered portraits invite contemplation. They hover between memory and transformation, presence and erasure—an echo of the evolving nature of identity itself.