Self-portrait, box. 2014

This object is part of the same series of works as “Self-portrait, light” and “Self-portrait, architecture” and it is based on the same self-portrait image, which has been, this time, decomposed and projected onto three boxes. This work makes me think of my childhood, a time when making fortresses out of empty cigarette packs was one of my pastimes. The intention here was to have this unassuming and easily breakable material (cardboard) become a toy, a memory-holder, a portrait and to gain a somewhat mysterious air –  each box contains another self-portrait, one of them, deconstructed, another re-formed and a third, a journal, make up removal pads that I used for several days. Although this work deals with memory, vulnerability and intimacy, it also has a very inconsistent and irrelevant quality due to the materials and the technique used. This contrast is, I believe, important in my self-analysis.