Throughout history, the portrait has served as a means of representing the face and social status, but with the advent of photography and the mass production of images, its traditional role has become questionable. In my thesis, I explore contemporary self-portraiture as a space of hybridity, where the classical notion of a stable identity unfolds into a fluid, multi-layered image. Through drawings and paintings in which the human body is intertwined with animal, machine, and symbolic elements, I develop a visual language that questions the boundaries of the body and subjectivity. A special place is occupied by the use of unusual substrates, such as a car hood, which creates a tension between soft and hard, between organic and artificial. The theoretical framework is based on the posthumanist theories of Donna Haraway, Rosa Braidotti, Karen Barad and Judith Butler, which open up the consideration of the body as an unstable process. The purpose of the task is to reflect on the author's creative process and to show how the contemporary self-portrait can transcend the classical limitations of representation.
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