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Self-portraits, 1994 onwards
" In the series of photographs by Ana Opalić
entitled Self-portraits, which has to be considered as
work in progress, signified melancholy has been deployed in the
sense of a rhetorical figure the performative of which is manifested
in 'providing a way out of the melancholy of normative femininity'.
Notably, within the discursive space of each individual photographic
image which structures the self-portrait, melancholy, as a rhetorical
figure, is produced by the relation between the author's figure-
its place, the mode of its positioning in space - and the landscape
captured in the frame. In that frame we often see something that
can, culturologically, be perceived as a melancholic scene: a solitary
figure positioned in a specific 'wild', rock-bound landscape, or
on a cliff overhanging the sea from which the view, paradoxically,
extends into infinity..."
Leonida Kovač, Somewhere, 2003
view photographs 2008-2000 / 2000-1994
portrait-instalation /
the hillock-video / Le-ZZ-Be-project |
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