Hidden

Hidden is an ongoing collaborative project between members of INTAC (International Art Collaborations) and the 23kg50lb Collective.

This project explores the contemporary nature of the self-portrait. Artists have eliminated the tradition of exhibiting their face as the main component of the photographic portrait. She or he has replaced it; sometimes an object obscures the face and in other scenes the face has been removed entirely. For example, abstracted strands of hair are all that exist within the photographic frame. In other cases, masques or digital alterations become the face of the artist. The works become a photographic performance that plays on the theme of representation. The removal of one’s face allows for the artist’s persona to emerge as ideas of the self are projected. But in the end, the self-portrait can reveal nothing just as much as it can reveal everything. It is up to the artist to decide how they wish to be represented.

Under this mask, another mask.
I will never be finished removing all these faces
– Claude Cahun