Throughout the process of discussing my work and showing it to others I was recommended to look at the work of Tschape. Without knowing any of her work beforehand it became apparent that in her series ‘100 Little Deaths,’ she had already made a body of work holding strong similarities to the images I have intended to create.
Antiparos (1998) from the series 100 Little Deaths.
Starting the project in 1996 and working on it through to 2002. The work presents the artist in a series of 100 self portraits, lying face down in different environments across the world. The work also acts as a travel diary for the artist between these years, her work is symbolic of the idea of leaving a part of yourself in every place you visit. In visiting these places, she had a taste for a different life for that short period of time her routine, connections and lifestyle made adjustments and in leaving, she cuts that new life short.
Tuscany (2002) from the series 100 Little Deaths.
“It was the idea of me dying, or living a little history that was very short in every place.”
Tschape describes the series as a pace between comedy and tragedy allowing the work to become surreal yet theatrical.
Fiji. (2002) from the series 100 Little Deaths.
These little deaths she photographs allow the artist to mark an end of the person she has developed into in a specific location, to represent the death of an old identity in order to allow for her to move on to consume a new identity in a new location until her next little death.
Series exhibited in France, 2002.
Taken from– National Museum of Women in the Arts
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