#464 Your Head Here

Viewers are welcome to take a selfie where their head fills the void in the picture.

Art has always reflected the viewer in that his inner beliefs come to light in the interpretation and experience of an artwork. Thus, the viewer is always part of the work. Of course, the same applies to all experiences of our surrounding world.
The selfie culture that has emerged with the digital image can be seen as an extension of this. Now we also place our exterior in the picture. But an image is a linguistic representation because it is experienced through perception. A face is a sign for its bearer and can never fully describe the subject's inner experience of himself. Hence the repetitive nature of the selfie - the subject's self-understanding is one of its main objects of desire. No matter how much we stare at ourselves and how many pictures we take of our faces, it can never fully capture what we look for in ourselves - who we really are? That is the function of desire - we seek something, but what we think we want, the object of our desire, can never satisfy us. There is always something wrong or missing when we get what we desire, so we keep striving for it repeatedly in a continuous cycle.