Anca Poterasu Gallery, Bucharest
Aurora Király
Melancholia (Self-portrait with sunglasses), 1998
silver gelatin print
11.7 x 8.3 inches
Ed. 2/5 + 1AP produced in 2020 (framed)
Shipping Location: Bucharest
Aurora Király’s Melancholia series makes use of black and white photographs that record self-portraits of the artist and of the details in places she traveled and worked at the end...
Aurora Király’s Melancholia series makes use of black and white photographs that record self-portraits of the artist and of the details in places she traveled and worked at the end of the 1990s. In her selfportraits, the artist’s face is complicit in the two roles of the gaze (model and object), but also of author and director of the image. The Melancholia self-portraits are in dialogue with artists like Claude Cahun, Cindy Sherman, and Francesca Woodman who sought to capture images that speak about themselves and their subjects’ identity.