CHASING MY SELF
2020 Home Gallery – 13 February 2004

Ioana Nemes’ Minigallery

Ioana’s project ‘Chasing My Self’ is an original approach to the minigallery concept. The photographs she selected for this proposal make up a series of self-portraits all taken from behind, showing the back of her head giving us the sensation that someone was following her very close. Within the minigallery this sensation of being looked at is recreated with the help of two peepholes through which the viewer is invited to see the show. It’s like you enter Ioana’s world to become the person following her. Once you start looking you have to make an effort to see it all, its not as if all is put in front of you like in a life size show.

Ioana Nemes

Artist’s statement

COMMENT 1
“I think that the fact that she photographed herself from behind reveals the unconscious desire to be somebody else. Not showing your face is the equivalent of wearing a mask. It hides something.”

COMMENT 2
“We do not know however if she wanted to see how something behind her is seeing her, and thus, photographing from this new perspective would take it’s place.”

COMMENT 3
“And then, jumping from one place to another doesn’t bring stability but it dissolves the identity of that person. I hardly believe that one could be its own judge, for there always will be some subjectivity involved.”