From the press release of the exhibition at Simone Subal gallery in NY:

"The associative power of metaphors is a compelling feature of Bismuth’s work. Throughout the space are a series of silkscreens that reflect upon what it means to make an image. The silkscreens depict the manipulation of a sheet of white paper. The titles of the works—An image as the extension of a surface, An image as the insinuation of a surface, An image as the obstruction of a surface, for example—are metaphors that get tagged to the piece, some of which link directly, others less so. In the moving, folding, crumpling, casting a shadow on, or tearing a sheet of paper, Bismuth goes through a kind of shorthand of the sprawling vocabulary of gestures used for image making today. The visual is printed directly onto the gallery’s walls, the screens shown either alongside or in different parts of the space. It is the screens that are the works of art, not the prints, which are merely a byproduct of the representational act. Bismuth inverts traditional expectations for the medium as a way to allow for reproductions to occur with all their flaws and inconsistencies and, most importantly, without the fetishization of the authorial imprint."