Self.Portraits

The making of collective self-portraits came about as a strategy for creating relations and understanding. With drawings, texts and photos, we begin the process of building relations within and as a group. The base of our manner of working is improvisation, each day we decide together in what manner we will work. The themes that we address and that (in part) we reference with drawings as a form of documentation are histories of our lives; questions of identity, sexuality, and rebellion; and different manners of understanding our present moment. The majority of material that results from this practice are drawings, although we also use texts and sound. After collecting the materials, we make a type of map or collage by mixing the pieces, and, once they are digitalized, we construct in the computer an interactive map, a self-portrait that can be navigated by means of the mouse.

We believe that these self-portraits will present an image of the prisoners and their situation as something both complex and, perhaps, very common. By participating in this project, we become more conscious of our own selves and of other forms of understanding who we are and that which occurs in our lives.

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