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Dream Dairy

Sissi farassat & Roman Chalupnik

The photography of Iranian-born photographer Sissi Farassat and Austrian artist Gregor Neuerer are brought together in Left but a Trace.

Using her own image as the subject of her work, Farassat walks the tightrope between revealing intimate details of her life yet never allowing the viewer into her personal sphere. New work for this exhibition, a series of Polaroid self-portraits, shows the artist in subtle erotic moments, but never exposed in complete nudity. Such images appear to open a window into her private space but in reality offer little more than a fleeting glimpse.

The theme of voyeurism also runs through a series of light boxes Farassat uses to display images of the female form. Equipped with sensors, the light boxes switch off if they detect the viewer coming too close and the image is lost. By rendering other photographs anonymous, stitching into them to reveal only an evocative thread silhouette on the reverse or using a blaze of coloured sequins the artist succeeds in detracting attention from the subject herself.