Connecting Cahun,
Performative Appropriation Digital Photography, 2015
Photograph, Archival pigment print on cotton paper, 118.9 cm x 84.1 (unframed), Edition of 5 + 2 AP (4 editions left).
Knezevic reenacts Claude Cahun’s gender ambiguous self-reflexive self-portrait as a snapshot of contemporary queer life in Sydney. Referencing Cahun’s mirrored image, Knezevic reworks it for its peculiar refusal to see its reflection. The direct gaze into the camera acknowledges how potent the lens and the image has become in contemporary life, perhaps overpowering the mirror as the site of self reflection.
Images made for the Second Comings exhibition, Marrickville Garage Gallery.
Photograph, Archival pigment print on cotton paper, Edition of 5 + 2 AP