Cooper & Gorfer Biography Sarah Cooper (b.1974, US) and Nina Gorfer (b.1979, Austria) have been collaborating since 2006 and work in Sweden. Their work centers around themes of illusion, memory, and dislocation, illustrating the malleability of identity through layered pictorial collages of the female experience. Their work at times can mirror 18th and 19th century paintings, with images of distinct reference to history, myths, and cultural heritage. Cooper & Gorfer’s work range from physically layered collages with painted and embroidered materials, to photographs of disassembled images with different states of ephemeral montage. They reimagine the tradition of portraiture by visually...
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