Carlos Gallardo Chilean, b. 1954
Pixel Terror, Autorretrato con Delvaux, 1982
Analogue photography, colour slide. Archival Pigment Print on Cold Press 340 gr. cotton paper
90 x 130 cm
Edition of 5 plus 2 artist's proofs
The 'Pixel Terror' series presents self-portraits of the artist in different museums in Paris, in front of historical works of art, with his face distorted in the foreground. The pixel...
The 'Pixel Terror' series presents self-portraits of the artist in different museums in Paris, in front of historical works of art, with his face distorted in the foreground. The pixel stores and reproduces colour in binary code images; the pixelated as censorship, a confused image of the subject whose body is anonymous, a suspended identity where the subject is targeted, intimidated and immobilised by the photographic apparatus.