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Notes for a Self-Portrait

On returning to Argentina, after years of living abroad, certain questions were imposed on me: What is the nature of the experience of dwelling in between two languages? How to speak of he who I am, who I have been and will become? What is the name that names me?

The stammering attempt to provide an answer to these questions is the purpose of this series of self-portraits. A series initiated during 2018 and which deals patently with the matter of what is one’s own -language, name, body- and with the impossibility of its appropriation without remnant, without crack, and without shadow.

Scarf embroidered with a quote by Michel Léris, canvas on stretcher bars, 4 passport-type photographs (3 in black and white, 1 in colour) and fountain pen, 18.5 x 18.5 inches, 2018

“How would I dare look at myself if I wasn’t wearing either a mask or distorting glasses?”

Michel Léris

Spray on plastic mesh, print-out on a silver paper with a quote by Jorge Luis Borges, 12.4 x 9 inches, 2018

«I am, but also I am the other, the dead,
The other man of my own kin and name»
Jorge Luis Borges

Old framed painting found on the street, torn passport-type photograph (in black and white), quote by Pascal Quignard in pencil and fountain pen, 18.1 x 15.7 inches, 2018

«Everyone follows the fragment of night where one sinks.»
Pascal Quignard