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SELF-PORTRAIT This Video-Composition includes 25 videos / 25 artists / 25 countries : 44 min
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SELF PORTRAIT
25 videos - 44 min
AVATAR - Fatima Mazmouz (Morocco - 1)
I GIVE MY PORTRAIT FROM BEHIND TO THE SUN AND MY PORTRAIT FROM THE FRONT TO THE MOON - Cagdas Kahriman (Türkiye - 2)
JECKE TRAVELS DIMENSIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL SNOWFLAKES - Jelena Miskovic (Serbia - 3)
SELF-PORTRAIT - Evgenija Demnievska (Serbia - 4)
ATLAS - Marilena Preda Sanc (Romania - 5)
WOLF - Amaranta Sanchez (Mexico - 6)
I NOT I, A LOOP - Carolina Saquel (Chile / France - 7)
SELF-PORTRAIT - Minoo Iranpour (Iran - 8)
SURGED, RIPPLED, PURGED - Mesrure Melis Bilgin (Türkiye - 9)
I SHALL TRY [SELFPORTRAIT AS A FILM MAKER] - Anne Penders (Belgium - 10)
LIBERTALIA - Maria Rosa Jijon Calderon (Ecuador - 11)
RUNNING - Eva Koch (Denmark - 12)
SELF-PORTRAIT (ALMOST) - Susana Barbara (Argentina - 13)
SELF-PORTRAIT / VOUVOULA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY - Berlin - Athens - Vouvoula Skoura (Greece - 14)
TUTTO BENE - Rachida Azdaou (Algeria- 15)
DECONSTRUCTED SELF - Christie Widiarto (Australia - 16)
THE FLOW - Antonella Bussanich (Italy - 17)
Flower in Hand - C. M. Judge (USA - 18)
SELF-PORTRAIT - Inas Hakki (Syria - 19)
I am the field - Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg / Georgia - 20)
I Am Every Woman - Lucy Azubuike (Nigeria / USA - 21)
THE PARADOX OF ORIGIN (Whose First Memory Am I?) - Heejeong Jeong (Republic of Korea - 22)
NO SELF - Madelon Hooykaas (Netherlands - 23)
ICONOGRAPHY - Sima Zureikat (Jordan / USA - 24)
SECRETS OF WRAPPING - Katya Nikonorova (Kazakhstan - 25)
DISTANCE - Tanya Akhmet Galieva (Russia - 26)
FACING THE SEA - Surekha Sharada (India - 27)
FRAGMENTS - Sigrun Hardardottir (Iceland - 28)
UN DÍA VOY A SER OTRA - Teresa Puppo (Uruguay - 29)
GLIMPSE IN THE MIRROR - Liina Siib (Estonia - 30)
SELF-PORTRAIT IN BALANCE - Véronique Sapin (France / Canada - 31)
CAMERA ON ME - Prilla Tania (Indonesia - 32)
LIVE IN PROGRES - Maria de Alba (Spain - 33)
MNEMONIC NEBULAE - Vicky Betsou (Greece - 34)
Concept
In 2013, the term "selfie" was voted "word of the year" in the Oxford Dictionary. It refers to self-portraits taken "at arm's length" using a digital process (cell phone, camera, etc.). New uses of the phone and social media have, in fact, trivialized self-representation, which requires mastery of one's own presentation. Smiling portraits in a variety of settings, aimed primarily at self-esteem, certainly weigh billions of gigabytes in Google's "photo" software.
"Love yourself." A phrase that fits our times. Does it reflect the selfishness, egocentrism, and pride of our individualistic societies? Of course, those who don't love themselves can't love others, that's a given. But perhaps too much self-sympathy isn't very healthy...
For centuries, the visual arts have cultivated self-portraiture in all mediums. Video art is an exception, having contributed little to this craze. Of course, contemporary trends involving recording images of artists' performances are widespread, but most of them don't constitute narratives of the self.
Experimental cinema in the 1960s initiated the first "self-filming," while at the same time, television shows were interested in the private testimonies of anonymous people, and the trend for first-person documentaries was spreading. The "I," whether suffering or joyful, so pervaded television images that, we can assume, most video artists have avoided entering the game of public confession as the subject matter of their videos.
Anyone who talks about writing their autobiography or creating their self-portrait raises suspicion and quickly finds themselves suspected of navel-gazing motives, or even of projects with voyeuristic motives... Critical discourses on this type of production must certainly have played a role in this distancing of video artists from the self-portrait as an artistic approach in its own right.
The artists of FL'Art have challenged themselves to install their self-portrait within a one-minute video. Their approach to self-portraiture is part of an introspective process that combines the multiple facets of their identity. Some slip into the image or adopt a metaphorical representation of themselves. Others question time and its traces. For still others, the search for meaning is more imperative. This exercise results in self-portraits that take stock, or that distance themselves, or that return to the essential, and/or that acknowledge the person the artist has become or is no longer. Some also draw inspiration from Eastern wisdom, such as Buddhism, to offer us self-portraits in which they have deliberately erased themselves.
Body and Identity: The Materiality of Being
Since the dawn of artistic consciousness, the face has offered itself as a primary field of exploration. The self-portrait, in its rawest essence, is a direct confrontation with the materiality of being. These features, examined every morning in the reflection of mirrors, are probed with the subjectivity of the creator in an attempt to grasp the fluid and complex identities that simultaneously define and elude us.
AVATAR - Fatima Mazmouz (Morocco - 1)
SELF-PORTRAIT - Evgenija Demnievska (Serbia - 4)
SURGED, RIPPLED, PURGED - Mesrure Melis Bilgin (Türkiye - 9)
RUNNING - Eva Koch (Denmark - 12)
TUTTO BENE - Rachida Azdaou (Algeria- 15)
DECONSTRUCTED SELF - Christie Widiarto (Australia - 16)
UN DÍA VOY A SER OTRA - Teresa Puppo (Uruguay - 29)
SELF-PORTRAIT IN BALANCE - Véronique Sapin (France / Canada - 31)
CAMERA ON ME - Prilla Tania (Indonesia - 32)
Places and Objects as Extensions of the Self
In his Confessions, St. Augustine wrote the first known intellectual autobiography in the 5th century. He compares memory to "vast palaces" through which he wanders. The spaces we inhabit and the objects that surround us extend, prolong, and imbue our identity. Studios, homes, the landscapes of childhood or exile become indirect mirrors. A bed, an open book, a curtain filtering the light in front of a window—all significant details that weave a silent narrative around the figure of the artist. These places and objects construct part of our identity in the secrecy of habits, affection, or rejection.
I GIVE MY PORTRAIT FROM BEHIND TO THE SUN AND MY PORTRAIT FROM THE FRONT TO THE MOON - Cagdas Kahriman (Türkiye - 2)
JECKE TRAVELS DIMENSIONS OF PHILOSOPHICAL SNOWFLAKES - Jelena Miskovic (Serbia - 3)
I NOT I, A LOOP - Carolina Saquel (Chile / France - 7)
SELF-PORTRAIT (ALMOST) - Susana Barbara (Argentina - 13)
SELF-PORTRAIT / VOUVOULA'S BIRTHDAY PARTY - Berlin - Athens - Vouvoula Skoura (Greece - 14)
I Am Every Woman - Lucy Azubuike (Nigeria / USA - 21)
THE PARADOX OF ORIGIN (Whose First Memory Am I?) - Heejeong Jeong (Republic of Korea - 22)
ICONOGRAPHY - Sima Zureikat (Jordan / USA - 24)
FACING THE SEA - Surekha Sharada (India - 27)
GLIMPSE IN THE MIRROR - Liina Siib (Estonia - 30)
MNEMONIC NEBULAE - Vicky Betsou (Greece - 34)
Presence in the World: Self-Portrait as Commitment
Artists also approach their self-portraits as a way of asserting their identity or taking a stance. Whether through self-portraiture, they affirm a sense of belonging, bear witness to a social or political reality, or simply exist powerfully in the eyes of others, artists place themselves at the center of their own discourse in order to situate themselves within the vast theater of the world.
ATLAS - Marilena Preda Sanc (Romania - 5)
I SHALL TRY [SELFPORTRAIT AS A FILM MAKER] - Anne Penders (Belgium - 10)
LIBERTALIA - Maria Rosa Jijon Calderon (Ecuador - 11)
THE FLOW - Antonella Bussanich (Italy - 17)
I am the field - Irina Gabiani (Luxembourg / Georgia - 20)
NO SELF - Madelon Hooykaas (Netherlands - 23)
SECRETS OF WRAPPING - Katya Nikonorova (Kazakhstan - 25)
Self-Portraits Under Influence: The Self Through the Prism of Context and Events
Personal history, significant encounters, social upheavals, and cultural trends all shape identity and, consequently, the way artists perceive and represent themselves. Their self-portraits are the result of interactions with the outside world. They demonstrate the permeability of identity.
WOLF - Amaranta Sanchez (Mexico - 6)
SELF-PORTRAIT - Minoo Iranpour (Iran - 8)
Flower in Hand - C. M. Judge (USA - 18)
SELF-PORTRAIT - Inas Hakki (Syria - 19)
DISTANCE - Tanya Akhmet Galieva (Russia - 26)
FRAGMENTS - Sigrun Hardardottir (Iceland - 28)
LIVE IN PROGRES - Maria de Alba (Spain - 33)
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