The Image Is a Thing that Is Not the Thing: The Artist Between the Layers of the Mirror

Abstract

In a distant past, few had the tools to represent themselves through the (self) portraits. Only the artists were able to tell the world how was the perception they had of themselves. The explosion of the image production in the modern world has triggered new forms of experiencing life, in situations that seem to dislocate the subject away from the center of the experience in favor of the registry of a time that passes without being actually experienced. In the field of art, there are new possibilities of art making that update issues dropped with the decline of painting in the twentieth century.