Cecilia Edefalk
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'Självporträtt med Pistol', 1993.
Signed Cecilia Edefalk and numbered 1/3 verso. Printed in 2020. Gelatin silver print, image 27 x 18.2 cm.
Provenance
Stene Projects, Stockholm.
Literature
Moderna Museet/Kunsthalle Bern, 'Cecilia Edefalk', exhibition catalogue, 1999, compare image p. 25.
Estelle af Malmborg, 'Contemporary Swedish Photography', 2012, illustrated on cover and p. 43.
More information
In the image 'Självporträtt med pistol', Cecilia Edefalk stands with a revolver in one hand, pointing it at the viewer. In the other, she holds a camera trigger. At the exact moment of the picture the revolver points at the camera, while the artist presses the trigger of the weapon and snaps a self-portrait. Cecilia Edefalk threatens to shoot herself as she takes the picture.
This motif, in a larger size, is in the Moderna Museet collection:
"Edefalk questions the truthfulness of a photographic portrait. But not knowing, or rather, not being able to choose which image of myself I want to live with, my own or others', creates an emotional swing."
Quote Moderna Museet, 2011.