Self Portrait as a nurse (1998/2024)

Ethics and Infinity

Phillippe Nemo: According to war accounts, it is very difficult to kill someone who looks you in the eye.
Emmanuel Levinas: First of all, it is the straightness of the face, its straightforward, defenseless, way of showing itself, the skin of the face is the most naked skin, the most exposed. The most naked although its nudity is decent. And, at the same time, the most exposed. There is in the face an essential poverty, which is proved by trying to mask this poverty by pretending, by looking untroubled. The face is exposed and threatened, as if it invited acts of violence. At the same time, it is the face that forbids us to kill.
excerpt from, *Ethics and Infinity, 1981, a conversation with philosopher Emmanuel Lévinas and Phillippe Nemo

Migrating tears (selfportrait as a nurse in my aunt’s examinationsdress) 1998/2022-24 photography, inkjetprint on Epson Enhanced Matte, white wooden frame 85x108cm

Self Portrait as a nurse, 2003, c-print 25x25cm

Video Nurse (still from a video with Dorinel Marc, loop 3 min, VHS. 1998)

Self Portrait (ode to my aunt the nurse), 2015