HRH P.R.
HRH P.R. observes, reacts and expresses himself with the means that are available to him. He collects and re-appropriates photographs from ordinary and often ephemeral sources. The images are printed on layers of transparent film until they become an object imbued with history. At once personal and universal in reference, the work transcends individual identity. It functions as shared cultural memories infused with elements of specificity and truth.
While revisiting the experience of historical events, they are as much a monument to loss as they are an accusation of sensationalism and inaction.
There is a physical density, an absorptive quality to the work, which makes that it can never be read in just one way. The beholder's gaze is sucked into the work through the dense layering of different images. From a distance it appears to be a portrait or a black abstraction but, upon moving closer, a deeper truth about the image is revealed, an unfathomable depth.
Shifting one’s position in viewing the work, leads to a transformation of a portrait into another portrait or a dark landscape.
HRH P.R. was born in 1981 in Dillon, S.C. After finishing High School, he moved to Saginaw, Michigan, where he currently lives and works.