Thomas Min - The Perfect Document Mamco Jean-Marie Bytebier (°1963) is a

Jean-Marie Bytebier (°1963) is a Belgian artist

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These playful photographic works resonate with the historical visual traditions of alchemy

Using an automatic drawing method called frottage (developed by Max Ernst in the 1920s) these rubbings were created using sheets of drawing paper and a selection of colored graphite sticks

In her search for traces of her refugee forebears Morris could find brief histories of them after they arrived at the Cape of Good Hope

Thomas Min - The Perfect Document Mamco Jean-Marie Bytebier (°1963) is aEvery conceivable objectfrom an ordinary thing to a readymade that is presented in an artistic context or an intentionally constructed artefactonce probably had a photographic pendant, either as a document or an artistic interpretation. On the one hand its a lovely and even comforting idea that things are given a second life, but on the other hand its a depressing thought that reveals something about our obsession to portray. Beautifully published by