BERNARD GAMOY: AUTOPORTRAIT/ANTI-PORTRAIT

Bernard Gamoy has been working on a series of self-portraits since 2005, through which he explores self-identity and the marginality of the artist in society. These works on paper are as much truths as they are fictions. Working from photographs taken with the camera on auto, the artist has developed a series in which he has discovered odd angles and asymmetrical facial expressions. The focus of these works is the gesture, expression and position of the body represented in an empty, non-narrative background. As a result the gestures, the occasional inclusion of text, or addition of animals create an ironic and often self-mocking allegory of the individual’s search for identity in the global society.