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Pixel War - 1-5

2013

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The Pixel War series engages with the visual legacy of conflict by reconfiguring photographs taken by renowned war photographers through deliberate digital distortion. Drawing on Robert Capa’s dictum - “If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough”; the artist magnifies and reframes documentary images until their formal coherence dissolves into pixelated abstraction. At close range, these works appear fragmented and illegible; yet from a distance, they regain recognizability, underscoring the resilience of visual memory in reconstructing familiar scenes despite material degradation.
The series incorporates imagery from diverse historical and geopolitical contexts, including the Vietnam War, the Normandy landings, and the detention facility at Guantánamo Bay. By reworking these iconic photographs, Pixel War foregrounds the tension between image, memory, and recognition within the visual culture of war.
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Creator of work
Liankevich, Andrei
Language
Belarusian
English
Geographic Origin
Belarus
Geographic Subject
Belarus
Subject
Arts and culture
Photography
Politics and government
War
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