Irene Fenara

 

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SELF PORTRAIT FROM SURVEILLANCE CAMERA

2018 ongoing

inkjet prints on Hahnemühle paper
various dimensions

 

Irene Fenara's interest in theories of visual culture and the need to appropriate the tools of contemporaneity, which determine our way of seeing, become an opportunity to practice observation and reflection on images. Using an instrument usually foreign to art: that of surveillance cameras that acquire images for the sole purpose of environmental control, with Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera Fenara relates power and vision. The work bears the traces of a movement, that of the artist who goes from the studio to the surveillance camera and then saves the image that portrays her before the continuous flow cancels it 24 hours later. The artist's gaze, turned towards the lens, becomes an act of resistance to impose her own identity on the controlled world, a reversed point of view that makes us reflect on the always reversible relationship between the observer and the one being observed.

L’interesse per le teorie di cultura visuale e la necessità di appropriarsi degli strumenti della contemporaneità, che determinano il nostro modo di vedere, diventano per Irene Fenara spunto per praticare l’osservazione e la riflessione sulle immagini. Utilizzando uno strumento solitamente estraneo all’arte: quello delle telecamere di sorveglianza che acquisiscono immagini al solo scopo di controllo ambientale, con Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera Fenara mette in relazione il potere e la visione. L'opera porta le tracce di un movimento, quello dell’artista che dallo studio si reca davanti alla telecamera di sorveglianza per poi salvare l’immagine che la ritrae prima che il flusso continuo la cancelli 24 ore dopo. Lo sguardo dell’artista, rivolto verso l’obiettivo, diventa un atto di resistenza per imporre la propria identità sul mondo controllato. E’ un punto di vista ribaltato che però ci fa riflettere sul rapporto sempre reversibile tra chi osserva e chi viene osservato.

 
installation view That's IT! Sull'ultima generazione di artisti in Italia e a un metro e ottanta dal confine MAMbo

installation view That's IT! Sull'ultima generazione di artisti in Italia e a un metro e ottanta dal confine MAMbo

 
Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 58x80 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 58x80 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 90x120 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 90x120 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 150x200 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 150x200 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 16x21 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 16x21 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 15x20 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 15x20 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 31x42 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 31x42 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 31x41 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 31x41 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 126x182 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 126x182 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 27x36 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2018, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 27x36 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 30x42 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 30x42 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2020, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 118x162 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2020, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 118x162 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2020, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 43x57 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2020, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 43x57 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 81x108 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 81x108 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 38x51 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 38x51 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 33x47 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2019, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 33x47 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2021, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 61x81 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2021, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 61x81 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2020, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 57x81 cm

Self Portrait from Surveillance Camera, 2020, digital print on fine-art Hahnemühle Photo Luster paper, 57x81 cm