
Frozen Features
- Publisher
- Loose Joints
- Year
- 2026
- ISBN
- 9781912719792
- Specifications
- Hardcover
24 × 30 cm
104 pages
Colour photographs
English
Through photomontage, Fulford merges time and space into a single daydream, inviting us to discover the mystical dimension hidden in everyday life, perceived even before being understood. For almost thirty years, Jason Fulford has based his research on the belief that the meaning does not reside so much in the single photograph, but in the sequence and the elements that surround it: images that are induced to create rhymes, echoes or dissonances with adjacent ones, ranging between books, exhibitions, publishing and performances. Frozen Features pushes this instinct further, giving life to a visual language made of stratifications randomly composed starting from images created between 1996 and 2026. The result is a fascinating narrative, governed by composition and chance: a sort of metaphysical slot machine that sifts through memory, returning fragments two by two, guided by intuition. Fulford's juxtapositions range freely between dimensional scales, places and chronologies: a tiny rolled leaf contrasted with a vast panorama, the silhouette of a hand floating on a bedspread, the signs traced by civilization superimposed directly on the landscape, transforming each image into a palimpsest - a surface on which one continually writes, where the oldest traces resurface under the new ones. A dry humor emerges and vanishes, formal echoes accumulate and the elusive relationship between the single image and the narrative is recomposed within square shots, rich in details and full of subliminal suggestions. In 1942, Barbara Morgan wrote that "modern life is photomontage": two distinct elements that share a single moment, just as happens with thought and emotion. Frozen Features welcomes this intuition, overcoming the historical weight of photomontage as a technique to arrive at something more similar to gaming: an irresistible and intuitive mix that, boldly and without hesitation, reaches straight to the heart.