Sophie Kahn is a Brooklyn based photographer
and digital artist that turned to 3D printing to bring her images into a
physical reality. Kahn was born in
London in 1980, lived in Melbourne, Australia. She got her BFA at Goldsmiths
College, University of London in 2001 and received a Graduate Certificate in
Spatial Information Architecture at RMIT in 2003. Her work explores the role of
the image and representation in the expanded field of post-photographic
imaging.
She began by using
the stereolithograph (STL) files to generate a lost wax cast in bronze. However, with the technology at her hands,
she has begun new endeavors through experimentation with full color 3D
printing. After she scans models
through photography, she then prints and uses sandblasting to give the works a
weathered and aged look. She has said
that her intent is to move away from the plastics that are common with 3D
printing and looks towards materials that have a much longer lasting
history.
Kahn’s sculptures seem incomplete in certain areas due to the process of the scanning. And so she developed an interest for the incompleteness that was cause due to occlusion in the images that were created through the 3D scanning process. She further assimilated this to the incomplete, often fragmented sculptures of antiquity.
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