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But what exactly is a self portrait?
      

     Title: Daily update: SELFIE Nr.1
     28.05.2019
    
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     Title: Daily update: SELFIE Nr.2
     20.11.2020
    
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     https://vimeo.com/481479015


   From the develpoment of the bourgeois individual to a permanent state of assurance of oneself.
 
   In the collective narcissism, the individual disappears...
   and the control of the gaze of the other on me, that is the claim of selfies.
   The promise of autonomy
   But what exactly is a self portrait?

 

 From the develpoment of the bourgeois individual to a permanent state of assurance of oneself.
This is different now.

In the collective narcissism, the individual disappears...
and the control of the gaze of the other on me, that is the claim of selfies. The pandemic dream is no cinematic narration. Still there is this promise of autonomy.