How to open the eyes of a person in photoshop by Erfan Aboutalebi

How to open the eyes of a person in photoshop by Erfan Aboutalebi

In style of online tutorials, the video work shows an attempt to bring a bog body from the Iron Age back to life with the help of Photoshop. The performative editing act, which consists of different chapters such as symmetry adjustment, smoothing, color therapy and rejuvenation, is outlined by a thesis selected from Wikipedia: “in the iron age bog bodies were thrown into the bog and they were examples of human sacrifice to the gods”. In a sense, we witness the sacrifice reaching the modern gods, the people of today, who have total power over what they see or want to see.

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HD Video / 11:11 min / 2019

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