Photo Fiber
In her recent photo-fiber series, Cogan develops a distinctive visual language that fuses photography, fabric collage, and embroidery through the lens of imagination. Beginning with her own photographs, historic and found images, she prints onto fabric, layers with appliqué, and reworks the surface through hand embroidery and paint, creating surreal tableaux infused with humor, irony, and dreamlike energy.
This hybrid practice elevates two historically marginalized media embroidery, associated with women’s domesticity, and photography, once dismissed as mechanical or populist into a singular, tactile art form. Cogan’s stitched interventions destabilize photographic authority, transforming familiar images into sites of vulnerability, playfulness, and cultural critique.
Her work articulates a new textured language poetic and layered and poignant that uses wit and sensitivity to reflect on contemporary culture while re-framing art historical traditions.
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