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Portrait as dialogue

How culture-specific are the ways in which humans perceive themselves and others? What is reality or fiction when we look at ourselves and others? To what extent do we project ourselves when we consider or represent our counterparts? As an artist I have been grappling with these questions for more than a decade by passing them unspoken on to those involved in my ‘Dialogical Portraits’, a series of ‘(self)portrayals’, for which I have applied a ‘dialogical’ strategy by placing myself as the subject to be negotiated, studied and represented through interpretations by my fellow human beings. In this article I give an overview about this artistic research and describe the dialogical method which I developed to approach the responses to these questions as well as the works of art itself.