CLINT ENNS - Camouflage Couple

Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 5 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and with an edition number by the artist on a separate label.

Clint Enns – Camouflage Couple

A couple poses against a backdrop whose pattern blends almost identically with their clothing. The camouflage, intended to conceal, here takes on the opposite effect: it makes the couple more visible, more exposed, trapped within the ornament. The gaze is serious, almost rigid—as if it were less about fashion than about a confession.

Clint Enns' Camouflage Couple plays with the tension between individuality and uniformity. Camouflage represents the military, conformity, and disappearance into the terrain. But in the studio, against a wallpaper that renders everything a flat surface, this camouflage becomes a grotesque pose. Instead of blending into their surroundings, the figures seem even more isolated.

The work poses the question: Is the need for belonging ultimately nothing more than a new pattern that swallows us up? Camouflage becomes a paradoxical symbol here—not of invisibility, but of radical visibility.