Vietnik

Vietnik
Author: Luca Massaro
Publisher: Gluqbar Editions
Language: -
Pages: 72
Size: 21 x 21 cm
Weight: 528 g
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9791220045643
Availability: In stock
Price: €35.00
Add Items to Cart
Product Description

The work “Vietnik” addresses the intrinsic duality of the photographic medium and its tie to the performative construction of identities. “Photography is the advent of myself as other: a cunning dissociation of the awareness of identity”. Vietnik is a musical pseudonym, a proxy, a cyborg in the inescapable extension of the self through technology, a “self-portrait as a building and bildung”.

The double (spatial and temporal, photographic and musical, of images and words) is a recurring motif, like a refrain - in the publication as in the installations and previous works.

The book's structure emulates and subverts the increasingly popular Hollywood format of the biopic. How does this trend of today cultural consumer is connected to the performative construction of social identities? How much of me appears in the photographed “persona” (“mask” -Latin, “public image” -English)?