Made from carefully sewn textile piping in gradually changing hues, the portrait takes various forms, and changes constantly depending on the light, how close the viewers are, or where their attention is being focused. In this sense, there is more than one piece within Fenne’s portrait: the one seen in close proximity -with visible seams that reveal it as a constructed object- or the one seen at a distance, which invades as an almost moving image.
Portrait III is part of a series of funghi on tree trunks which Martin Fenne produced in 2020.