The grey and white grid – the Photoshop background – stands for transparencies and is invisible when images are printed. As a chain of pixels, composed of the smallest digital unit, it represents the binary system: 0 or 1, true or false, grey or white. In between there are stories, layers and colors. Setareh Shahbazi deconstructs photographs by cutting, peeling, bending and unlayering them until she hits the core of the digital medium, the background layer, thus setting free an invisible pattern.