Primacy Subject, Hannah Laycock
“Within this series of photographs I have set out to produce images that play on the power relations between subject and observer. Within each image of this series the subject holds a mirror. The mirror prevents the observer from seeing the subjects face and instead reflects the scene around the subject. My idea to use a mirror is a play on the notion of folklore that suggests that mirrors represent and reveal the truth of what passes before them, but here they only obstruct, leaving the observer dissatisfied or frustrated.”
Pol Ubeda Hervas - I’m Not There (2012)
Artist’s statement:
“How can we accept that we are changing? How can we accept we hardly recognize ourselves in certain situations? I am changing at this very moment of my life. I do not react in the same ways I used to. I am surprised. Is that me? These pictures are the way I see myself now. My shadow is there but I erase myself because I don´t know who I am any longer. The shoes remain only to make sure there is something more than…a shadow.”
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