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This project, presented in both a Saint Petersburg factory and museums of the West, is an interaction between spectators and the artist. The artist films each participant and throws their image back at them just as they start to relax in front of

...A predecessor of Lynn Hershman Leeson's influential “Roberta Breitmore” series, “Self Portrait as Another Person” features a wax cast of the artist's face that was made in 1966. Characteristic of similar pieces created by the artist in this period, the face is framed...

... seconds they invade the face, but even the slightest movement of the head or of parts of the face drives them off. The portraits are thus in constant flux, they construct and deconstruct. Portrait on the Fly is a commentary on our love for making...

Fly Objects © 2018, Christa SOMMERER & Laurent MIGNONNEAU represented by: Galerie Charlot, Paris Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt Fly Objects is collection of artworks in different forms and formats, they are all based on the motif of the fly.

Circular-patterned digitizing of the viewers' movements was conjoined with the static recording of a large souvenir reproduction of the Eiffel Tower. The work uses the same image processing software originally developed for Video Narcissus

... Laurent Mignonneau and Christa Sommerer represented by: DAM Galerie Berlin, Galerie Charlot Paris Galerie Anita Beckers Portrait on the Fly also exists in the form of a series of plotter drawing portraits on paper. Vector based drawings of digital fly...

...Imagine a portrait. You walk up to it and engage in conversation. You pick a question from a pre-established set on the screen. The portrait gives you an answer. A new set of questions, or coments appears. You get further reactions. As this process goes on, a...

...ture of other types of imprints produced by the body itself – fingers, saliva, tongue, teeth, etc. The resulting ‘visceral’ self-portrait is permeated by corporeality and does not singularly ‘represent’ the bodily. – Uršula Berlot, 2012