Philippe Remy

Wouldn’t all portraits be self-portraits? Wouldn't the portrait be the representation that we make of ourselves, or of a part of our being, through the other?
Unless it is the gaze of the other that we integrate as a representation of ourselves, a pseudo reality. Or the way we look at ourselves when projected outside, or even seen from another, sideways angle.
A new layer of ephemerality and impermanence is thus added to our beliefs, to these ideas of self that we appropriate as truths and that we imagine to bring us into existence.