ABOUT AUTO-PHOTOS

Conceptualizing around Auto-Photos would mean stabbing them with subtitles and ideas supported by other more objective ones.

Naming a moment lived that precedes the creation or the concrete work itself, is dangerous, because it changes its natural meaning in order to renew it with other ideas, leading the creative work of the artist into a direction that may disrupt the ties with its true possibilities. A moment is never repeated; it becomes fragile and stiff, raising questions about the nature of spontaneity.

The act of creating depends on subjective motivations brought by the collective unconscious and moments of premonition. The creative need and execution can be disguised by my aesthetical concern with the formal composition. This preoccupation is an inherent part of my personality.

Therefore, trying to define Auto-Photos into a concept, would be sterilizing them from my subjective self; the work ceases to be art and becomes something else, and to participate in a context that studies human nature from its moral aspect; It become The Open Work¹ from inside out through a meaningless subtitle.

¹ Reference to Umberto Eco`s book “The Open Work”

GRETTA SARFATY