Gelatin silver print on fiber Agfa photographic paper
Stamp of the artist on the back
Sheet size : 17 x 12,5 cm
Self-portrait in front of “One Year Self-Portrait” exhibition, circa 1980.
Between 1972 and 1983, Kubelka created her One Year Self-Portrait (Jahresportraits) series, during which she would photograph herself daily over one-year spans and then mount the photos together on large sheets of paper. This process was meant to document the variety of emotions she experienced and provide an intimate view into her life as a woman and an artist, and later, as a wife and a mother.
Friedl Kubelka is an Austrian photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born in London, England in 1946. Her photographic practice has been attributed to a 20th-century movement known as Feminist Actionism or Viennese Actionism. Kubelka’s photographic works sometimes focus on accentuating temporality, seriality and the body.