For my Self Portrait 2010 , I have been selected as a finalist for the juried show of this years‘ theme- Escapism. The Background of the photograph stems from the archival short film titled These Days are gone , 2025. In reference to Nostalgia, high hope performance and big dreams youth can provide, there is still this hopelessness in my gaze. Wearing a showgirl headset in a black-and-white digital camera picture only further symbolizes the distance between the role I’m performing and the person underneath it — a showgirl’s promise of spectacle masking a gaze that has already stopped believing in the show. 2010 also marks a threshold moment: the front-facing camera and the selfie were just entering the cultural bloodstream, and self-portraiture was beginning its shift from private ritual to public performance. This image sits at that hinge — caught between an older, more intimate way of looking at oneself and the self-broadcasting era it was about to become.
Join me at the Motorhalle in Dresden for the exhibition opening of the Hellerau Portraits photography Award on the 6th of November.
More information to follow.