VIEW IN MY ROOM
My Senegalese family - Limited Edition of 6 Photograph
France
Photography, Color on Aluminium
Size: 19.7 W x 19.7 H x 0 D in
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About The Artwork
In 2000 I met Mor, a Senegalese man, in a hip-hop disco in Milan. I immediately became pregnant and although he was unsure, I convinced him to keep the baby. Yassine Aisha was born in April 2001, and baptised Muslim. In 2002, Mor and myself split up, but kept a good relationship. In 2004 we all went to Dakar to meet the family. I spent one month living with them, in their living conditions, which was not easy for me, but I wanted to experience what it felt like being from a poor African family. The connection I managed to establish with the women of the family was powerful, even though they didn't speak other than Wolof. When I went back to Milan, Yassine stayed there with her father for two more months, and when she came back, she had forgotten to speak Italian. It was then she took her powerful self-portrait, to express the contrast between her warm brown skin and the cold European atmosphere. I've always been attracted to diversity, and this experience, although not easy at times, has been one of the most important and long-lasting in my life. My daughter constantly shows me what it means to be black, or rather, half-black. This image was taken with the Rolleiflex, 2,8 planar. It is printed on Hahnemuhle Baryta paper, mounted on 2mm Dibond. This image is part of the project "Someone to Love" and part of the video/diaporama "Someone to Love, 2011" visible at cristinanunez.com and shown at the Mois de la Photo in Montreal 2011, Luova gallery Helsinki, H2O gallery Barcelona, MUSAC Spain, Chobi Mela photo festival, Sponge Arte Contemporanea Italy, Boiler Room Oslo among others. Someone to Love has been published in book form in 2010 by The Private Space Books, and, with the new name "But Beautiful" by Le Caillou Bleu, Brussels in 2012. The video/diaporama obtained the Celeste Prize 2012 and But Beautiful obtained the Prix de la Critique Voies-Off Arles in 2013.
Details & Dimensions
Photography:Color on Aluminium
Artist Produced Limited Edition of:6
Size:19.7 W x 19.7 H x 0 D in
Frame:White
Ready to Hang:Not applicable
Packaging:Ships in a Box
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In 1988, in an attempt to overcome personal problems, Cristina Nunez began to take self-portraits in private. Giving shape to her emotions and revealing her presence to the world, enabling her to turn an uncompromising gaze upon herself, but also to project herself as she wanted to be, these images became a form of self-therapy through which she learned who she is. Someone to Love (1988-2011) brings together for the first time the best self-portraits that she made; The Self-Portrait Experience shares with viewers her method of interior exploration. These two paths now form the focus of her art. Born in 1962 in Figueras in Spain, Cristina Nunez lives and works in Chiasso, Switzerland. Up to the early 2000s, she produced photography books in which she addressed social questions through the portrait: Body and Soul (1994), To Hell and Back (1995), Heaven on Earth (1998), Io sono/I am (2000). On the margins of this public body of work, she made self-portraits as a form of therapy; since 2005, this has been the focus of her photographic and video work, as well as of The Self-Portrait Experience workshops that she has been conducting. Her works have been presented at the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence (1997), Palazzo Reale in Milan (1997), the Rencontres d'Arles (1998), the Centre National de l'Audiovisuel in Luxembourg (2008), the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan (2008), Festival FotoGrafia in Rome (2009), the Private Space Gallery in Barcelona (2010), the Mois de la Photo in Montreal 2011, Luova gallery in Helsinki (2012), H2O gallery in Barcelona (2012), MUSAC (2013) and Sponge Arte Contemporanea (2013). In 2010 she was a finalist (receiving an honourable mention) for the New York Photo Festival Awards. In 2011, she was showing her works in "Second Lives. Jeux masqués et autres Je" at Casino Luxembourg, as part of the Mois Européen de la Photographie. In 2012 her video Someone to Love obtained the Celeste Prize and her project But Beautiful obtained the Prix de la Critique 2013 at the Voies Off Festival in Arles. www.cristinanunez.com https://selfportrait-experience.com https://www.youtube.com/user/cristinanunez/
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