![]() ![]() Turning the camera on ourselves was a curious act. It's one of the first things I did when I got a smartphone. Lantin: I'll wager that more than 90% of people have grabbed a phone and taken a selfie. We want Inner Selfies to reflect who we are and how we feel, rather than mirroring and propagating the self-imaging behaviour that serves an extractive consumption model. We want to facilitate bringing poetry back into our sense of self – and in its expression and representation in our online social context. We have to ask ourselves how such an all-consuming self was created, by whom, and with what interest – who does it really serve? What is it? Where is it located? Are we our feelings? Our memories? Our impulses? Is it no more than a call and response? Is the self even a thing? Do we really need it? Could we do without it? ![]() The self is a construct and the project’s guiding principles stem from an exploration of the ephemeral qualities that make up this sense of self. It also reveals how little substance there may be here. It telegraphs the superficiality and all-conforming nature of a mass-consumer society, whose growth is running on the rocket fuel of social media. #selfie culture gives us key insights into the way people see themselves today. Janmohamed: We are completely obsessed with our self-image and identity, and their representation! This is a granular fallout from ‘the Century of the Self’, which is marked by consumerism and the commodification of everything. The Inner Selfie project has emerged from this initial seed, and it continues to be marked by an emergent nature.ĪGOinsider: What is your take on #selfie culture? What do you think it reveals in people? It was an exploration of the nature of contemporary portraiture and was the first Inner Selfie. The MRI contents and medical annotations were replaced by a composited image and anecdotal data about the ‘patient’ – echoes of personal history, characteristics and geography, the sort of things that inform our sense of self. ![]() The self-portrait employed the vernacular of medical imaging as a ‘scan of the self’. Janmohamed & Lantin: The original notion of an Inner Selfie began with a self-portrait by Hanif Janmohamed, titled Cranial Cosmologies, created in 2013 – coincidentally the same year that the word “selfie” was the Oxford English Dictionary’s word of the year. ![]() Here’s what they had to say:ĪGOinsider: Can you tell us how this project began? To learn more about the project, we reached out to Janmohamed and Lantin for all the details. Through the artist project website, visitors can also create their own custom versions of Janmohamed’s reimagined digital brain scans. Anne Tanenbaum Gallery School Gallery School. Visitors are encouraged to create their own inner selfies, inspired by Janmohamed’s imagery, with recycled materials from the Dr. The art work features a selection of reimagined MRI-style brain scans and five floating images of portraits from the AGO Collection. The AGO’s Community Gallery has reopened with a new interactive art project that invites everyone to look at their #innerselfie! In this new installation by Vancouver-based artists Hanif Janmohamed and Maria Lantin, people of all ages can imagine and express their inner selves in Inner Selfies, on view now in the Community Gallery in the Weston Family Learning Centre on the Lower Level (Concourse). ![]()
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