Fragments

In a series of collages made of black and white prints Serlin extracts from close-up photographs of headstones and old marble textures, the nothingness of what was cut out of them. What was cut is the symbol, the form, the sign. 

When Serlin places several cut-out holes one on top of the other, she creates empty shadows, spaces of absence, that continue to cut each other until there appears a deep picture of the superficial, of the remainder, of what was lost in translation, or lost in time. In the center of each such reversed emblem are the gap and the absence.