Modelling Selfies (in paper outfits)

In these photographs, I am positioned in front of bedroom and hallway mirrors, my face hidden by a mobile device, or cropped out by the edge of a frame. Attached to my body are scaled up reproduced inkjet prints of outfits drawn from online selling sites which I use as templates for performing, becoming or being, the image. The resulting work is therefore drawn from the algorithmic, made analogue and returned to the digital in an albeit compromised form which is nearly, but not quite. This offline/online exchange between the body and the image foregrounds a sequence of movements played out in the prosumer cycle, which I follow using performance and performing-images to determine how women configure, and are configured by, current and everyday modes of image-making, offering new insights into contemporary framings of self[ie] portraiture. Whilst I create photographic self-portraits, the self-representations should be understood as being less about me, and more concerned with the performative behaviours of others.