"Självporträtt med Pistol", 1993.
Signed Cecilia Edefalk and numbered 3/5 according to the verso. Produced in 2004. Gelatin silver print, image 41.5 x 27 cm.
Provenance
Stene Projects, Stockholm.
Bo Ahlstrand Collection.
Literature
Moderna Museet/Kunsthalle Bern, “Cecilia Edefalk”, exhibition catalogue, 1999, compare illustration p. 25.
Estelle af Malmborg, “Contemporary Swedish Photography”, 2012, illustrated on the cover and p. 43.
More information
In the image "Självporträtt med pistol" Cecilia Edefalk stands holding a revolver in one hand, pointing it towards me as the viewer. In her other hand, she holds a camera remote shutter release. At the moment captured in the image, the revolver is aimed at the camera. As the artist presses the gun’s trigger, she simultaneously takes a self-portrait. Cecilia Edefalk threatens to shoot herself at the very moment she takes the picture.
A larger version of this motif is held in the collection of Moderna Museet:
“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 that of others, creates an emotional quagmire.”
— Moderna Museet, 2011.
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