For a maximum number of likes, selfies become killfies.
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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.

1 | 10 Diamond Bay cliffs Sydney, Australia

2 | 10 Klettersteig on the Großer Donnerkogel, Gosau, Austria

3 | 10 Gumpe, Königssee, Berchtesgadener Land National Park, Germany

4 | 10 Bull running in the town of Villaseca de la Sagra, Spain

5 | 10 Na Muang Waterfall, Koh Samui, Thailan

6 | 10 Trolltunga, Ringedalsvatnet lake, Norway

7 | 10 Taj Mahal, King's Gate, India

8 | 10 Cabo da Roca, Portugal

9 | 10 Machu Picchu, Peru

10 | 10 Cataratas de Bosetti, Iguazú Falls, Argentina
Dagmar Gester