Faculty of Art
Sculpture/Installation
Tamar Bresge
Obvious Prophecies (Portrait of the Artist After Synagoga)
Painting
2019
One sitting (7.5 hours) / 44.3 cm x 50 cm x 0.8 cm
Performance for portrait, oil on wood
My work is centred around themes of nostalgia, longing, and unlocking myself from a particular moment in time. I erase myself from a specific moment by locating my image in a lost representation between classical and romantic movements. With my degenerative eye disease, I gradually lose more and more sight, across the span of my life. In this image, I implicate my body to its own blindness, hasten my blinding in attempt to control it. But through the historical imagery, I play with the trajectory of my own body, my self's place inside it, and my outward identification with an invisible disease. February 8, 2019,Florence, Italy.