Victor Stamp

About Victor Stamp

Victor Stamp is an Australian artist living and working in Madrid, Spain. His work typically uses photography as a raw material and then applies a series of transformations to it, converting the analogue to digital (and then back again). Long-forgotten snapshots and run-of-the-mill commercial photography are transformed by the artifices of digital imaging to tell imaginary stories and set imaginary scenes. The imagery of the contemporary world is generally banished: what is shown belongs to a fantasized but plausible past, a fictional retroprojection. Stamp plays upon photography’s essences and paradoxes: the moment of time frozen into eternity but threatened immediately with forgetfulness and abandon; truth susceptible of being fiction (and vice-versa); the slice of life underwritten by a certain death.