Traces
2021 / 4k video / colour / sound / single screen / 62'46

Traces is an ASMR video tutorial that demonstrates the process of forensic fingerprint development on old currency that has been out of circulation for thirty years. With Bridget Moser.

I left Moscow at 10 years old when it was still part of the Communist USSR and made my first trip back home to the “Russian Federation” 28 years later. Disturbed by the disappearance of the place I was born in, I purchased 300 Soviet banknotes which went out of circulation in 1993, with plans to lift fingerprints off them.

The fingerprints, once revealed through a chemical process taught to me by a forensic specialist, are photographed using an orange filter on a macro lens, and enlarged 80 times their size, in order to show the last natural traces of a place that has been made to vanish.

Commissioned by Trinity Square Video for the Archival Affections themed commission and summer residency.

August 27 – November 25, 2021

With works by Vanessa Godden, Monique Todd, Lana Lovell, Yuula Benivolski, Camila Salcedo, Katayoun Jalilipour

Curated by Karina Iskandarsjah
View at http://www.archivalaffections.com/

Thank you to Rob Felske from Latent Forensics.

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