Memory Affairs
Referring to Susan Sontag „with the help of photographs, every family constructs a portrait chronicle of itself“. I inherited a box with a lot of old photographs and I have given these old photographs of my mostly unknown family and friends a new face. This transformation accents the representation of the body. The concept of hiding the faces reveals and examines the potential of the image, and sensitizes our perception.
The concept of this project is to hide the faces with natural material which I find in my surrounding. Covering the faces is to make the individual more abstract, like using a mask. In this case, hiding the face in photography sharpens the gaze to see and to read the posture, the gesture, arrangement, and representation. With this project, I would like to bring people to see behind the surface and to provoke and question ironically the representation.
The concept of this project is to hide the faces with natural material which I find in my surrounding. Covering the faces is to make the individual more abstract, like using a mask. In this case, hiding the face in photography sharpens the gaze to see and to read the posture, the gesture, arrangement, and representation. With this project, I would like to bring people to see behind the surface and to provoke and question ironically the representation.