Project Y / Projekt Y

Projekt Y "Congress" is a series of staged bust portraits where the title refers to the Y chromosome. Inspired by classical portrait paintings and Roman bust sculptures, I wanted to experiment capturing fellow students with similar experiences in a uniform manner in which the person portrayed takes the same static attitude within a corresponding cadrage. By portraying these people with an absent look, their own personality appears to fade and a new collective identity is created that refers to a self-portrait. The individual titles (example; 0911 / 11.30, 2017) of the work refer on the one hand to the time at which the images were made, the use of the Exif data on the other hand to digitized photography. The history of the medium is hereby questioned, to what extent is an image still real or manipulated ...