Selfportrait

This work is about interaction of dynamic and changeless, fleeting and infinite, human world and the world of things. Faceless image of the author reflected on the mirror tells us, on the one hand, about dynamics of human life, a human is not completed at any moment of its existence. On the other hand, it tells us that anyone can be at the place the author is. This is not a personal story, this is fate of whole humanity. The world of things is more durable and stable than human world. A sink, writings on tiles, a mirror. All these elements were before and are going to be after presence of a human in this room. A human appear temporarily as a ghost and try to leave the ones own trace in the world of things, that human wants to say «I exist» or «I existed». There is an element that tells us of it in «Self-portrait». The element is reflection of the man standing very close to the sink, but there is no one against the sink in reality. There is only a canvas with a sketch at the right corner - attempt to leave a trace.
This work appeared in Internet many times, particularly it does in well-known Russian imageboard «Dvach» as an example of hard life in Russia.

written by Vasily Kuznetsov

Exhibitions:
1. 2019, «Interregional Art Exhibition "Temporary Phenomenon "», Irkutsk, Russia
2. 2019, «All-Russian youth art exhibition "Youth of Russia "», Moscow, Russia
3. 2021, «XVII Regional Youth Art Exhibition-Competition», Irkutsk, Russia

Catalogs:
2021, «XVII Regional Youth Art Exhibition-Competition», Irkutsk, Russia