Cecilia Edefalk »Self-Portrait, 1993/2011«

Galerie Nordenhake is proud to present Self-Portrait by Cecilia Edefalk—one of the artist’s most iconic and celebrated works.

Cecilia Edefalk’s intuitive and deeply personal practice often draws from things that she encounters in her everyday life. Her approach fuses the intimate and the analytical. The choice of topics often emerges from a rigorous, uncanny intuition that she hones to undertake serial explorations of a single motif, experimenting with duplication, scale, and installation.

Edefalk views repetition as a means to express different ideas. She isolates transitory moments of perception, multiplying and dividing the forms that emerge from them.

In the work *Self-Portrait Edefalk stands with a revolver in one hand, pointing at the observer. In the other she holds a camera shutter release. As she aims at the camera lens, she snaps a self-portrait. Cecilia Edefalk threatens to shoot herself the moment she takes the picture. She seems to be destructively erasing herself in both images.