Anner Cohen’s body of work emerges from an encounter between his material and emotional world with his extended being in virtual space.

Cohen’s oil paintings are the result of a multi-stage process, which begins with staging and photographing scenes of food, rotten fruit or human figures. The photographs are then manipulated in a code-based image processing program.

What emerges from this process finds new life in his paintings. Thick application of color and semi-transparent glazing, reminiscent of the Old Masters, collide with his altered images, recreating the materiality of objects lost in the digital render.