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Tabitha Soren
pinterest.com_jenifferw_unusual-landscapes_, 2021
Archival pigment print, 21 x 28 inches
AP, signed, verso
Unframed
Courtesy of the artist
Estimated value: $4,500
“Surface Tension” encourages us to see our relationship with everyday technology in unexpected ways, highlighting the marks we leave on tech device screens, which we routinely ignore or wipe off. The subjects pictured beneath the surface record our culture, while the smears of fingerprints record our lives, our flitting attentions. They map how we spend our time. Using an 8x10 large-format camera, Soren shoots iPad screens under a raking light to reveal the tactile trail we leave behind. The science of touch makes clear that humans need to connect with the physical world, yet we spend an increasing amount of time satisfying only our sense of sight while touching the cold, impervious surfaces of technological devices.
Image courtesy of Lou Noble
About the Artist:
Tabitha Soren
Tabitha Soren (b.1967, San Antonio, TX) is a photo-based artist whose photographs are held in many private and public collections, including LACMA and the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Harvard Art Museum, Cambridge, MA; New Orleans Museum of Art, George Eastman Museum of Photography, Rochester, NY; and Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco; among others. Her work has been included in museum exhibitions at the Davis Museum at Wellesley College in Wellesley, MA (solo); Berkeley Art Museum; and New Orleans Museum of Art and Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans.
Soren explores the surface of the photograph to get at what is going on underneath. A visual artist in different domains for over 25 years, Soren has long explored the intersection of psychology, culture, politics, and the body. Soren’s work speaks to those twists of fate that can unhinge us. Her photographs visualize psychological states; the internal weather that storms through each of us.
Website: tabithasoren.com
Instagram: @tabithasoren
