Self/Portrait – Teresa Eng (limited edition with print)

Teresa Eng considers today’s Chinese society but also our complex relationship with technology and its role in defining who we are. In these photographs passers-by, that the photographer has stopped, are portrayed in the light of the LEDs of a shopping mall.
They are almost always young ‘Millennials’ who, in addition to being digital natives, are the first generation born at a time when Chinese society was already in transition to capitalism.

The pages of the book juxtapose the image taken by the artist with selfies made by passers-by.
You immediately notice the difference between the fiction of the selfie and the spontaneousness of a face portrayed in its authenticity, to the point of making it difficult to recognize the face of the photographed person.

Edition of 100 copies numbered and signed with print