Felix R. Cid ​’Venuses’ at Garis & Hahn

Venuses is a body of work comprising of seven vertical, color images of people sleeping in the streets of seven cities: London, Milan, Paris, New York, New Haven, Madrid, and Barcelona. Cid transforms the sleeping figures by mirroring one half of the photograph to create a symmetrical “abstraction”. A simple but aggressive move that creates an original form, which is then brought to life by displaying the hundreds of images in rapid succession – documenting the subtle movement of an unseen and anonymous subject breathing and shifting.