Francisco Tomsich, Still Lifes With Gauze Strips (Selection, 2024-2025)

The images from the series Still Lifes With Gauze Strips were created in January 2024, by manipulating over an open scanner, in the darkness of the studio, certain objects (a pipe, a piece of coal, a journal, a sponge, a set of brushes, a toy, a small plant) which are traditional dwellers of artists’ ateliers as well as of still life paintings, drawings and photographies.
Those objects were partially covered with strips of gauze, a very thin, light cloth used for covering cuts and to separate solids from liquids, whose name has been thought to be from Arabic origin (gazz, raw silk) or related to Gaza, a Palestinian city once associated with its production.