Ten out of hundreds.
For a maximum number of likes, selfies become killfies.
Selfie extreme, a phenomenon that uniquely describes the 21st century, in which the self-portrait has become part of the simulated world of digital communication.
It is the favoured tool for proving an exciting life and achieving the highest possible affirmation; the attempt to raise self-esteem in the fiction in which even the Pope wears Balenciaga.
In 2015, Roger Willemsen formulated in his ‘Future Speech’:
But we will also recognise this future by the fact that the boundaries between the original and the simulation will become even more blurred. [...] So that in the end the only, at least largely non-simulated life will be the one we lead with ourselves as viewers. But in the endeavour to become image-capable himself and to gain entry into the world of fakes, he chooses the possibility of ennobling himself into a double of his own person. The selfie, auto-erotic duplication, filial existence - is this the future of the self?
The work is presented on digital screens and was realised in collaboration with photographer Silke Mayer.
Dagmar Gester
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