Séduit à Mort (Modern Girls, Modern Boys), 2022

Zam’s portrait work often features celebrated cultural figures; more recently whole images are constructed from thousands of tiny individual digital pieces. His recent ‘Modern Girls, Modern Boys’ series has been a purely experimental exploration of a medium genre, and takes inspiration from happenstance collage such as the accumulation of street bill-posting and tagging. The subjects, overlaid with clusters of collage fragments, and paint splashes and drips remain discernible; the random detritus creates a mysterious and slightly disturbing effect. In particular this piece is also inspired by the portrayal of rituals around death and the afterlife; and its glamorization in popular culture...View all