Remains, Mixed Media Photography

The Original

Remains by Robin Rivers is an original piece of mixed media photography from the Albertine Series. I created this piece using my original photography that has not been digitally altered, acrylic medium and gold. 

The framed piece measures 25×26.5″. Shipping will be calculated based on location.  Please note that colours and contrast vary between different monitors.  The colours may not match your monitor’s display exactly. Additionally, copyright of my artwork does not transfer with purchase.

The Inspiration for Remains by Robin Rivers

Through the Albertine series, I explore how memory and time fragment. How they reconstruct themselves into spaces that live vividly in our experience, even when they are not a faithful representation of the original. Remains combines a pair of wintery images of the lake at Chateau d’Orquevaux in the Champagne-Ardene region of France. Robin shoots and hand-treats each photo. It reflects the dreamlike state that Henri and Albertine find themselves in upon learning of Albertine’s true origins and what brought her to Paris.

The Artist

Robin Rivers is a multidisciplinary storyteller. She explores cultural memory keeping and technologies of circulation—how stories and images travel between people and across generations. Her practice folds writing and original photography into my mixed-media collage process. She examines how documented archives and personal interpretation shape our shared understanding of the past and how preservation itself is shaped by power, privilege, and historical upheaval. Robin creates all pieces at Studio Albertine in Vancouver, Canada—on the unceded territory of the Coast Salish Peoples. This includes the territories of the xʷməθkwəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and Səl̓ílwətaʔ/Selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

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