Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? (Why be You When You Can be Me?) – by Petra Collins
Baron
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Collins’ new photobook was commissioned by the cult erotic magazine Baron and is titled Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? The Hungarian phrase translates as “Why be you, when you can be me?”, and is borrowed from a 1998 Canadian TV commercial “Boutique” about two girls who enter a surreal makeup store where a woman continuously says the phrase through a screen. Collins’ choice of Hungarian is a nod to her mother, who emigrated to Canada from Hungary in the 1980s.
For the sixth edition of Baron, artist Petra Collins flips the camera lens onto herself... more specifically into herself. Uninhibited, gross, disjointed, and confusing, Collins places us in a world filled with perverse personal thoughts and lucid landscapes. With the book’s Hungarian title Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? Collins asks us: Why be you, when you can be me? Collins uses the camera as the third person. It captures historical truths (such as a time and place) and an emotional reality with a complicated relationship to intention and perception. Working with the sculptor Sarah Sitkin, Collins creates moulds of her body as well as her sisters to gain ownership, in a world where our bodies live in multiple realities.
English
166 pages
22 x 28,5 cm
Hard Back
For the sixth edition of Baron, artist Petra Collins flips the camera lens onto herself... more specifically into herself. Uninhibited, gross, disjointed, and confusing, Collins places us in a world filled with perverse personal thoughts and lucid landscapes. With the book’s Hungarian title Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? Collins asks us: Why be you, when you can be me? Collins uses the camera as the third person. It captures historical truths (such as a time and place) and an emotional reality with a complicated relationship to intention and perception. Working with the sculptor Sarah Sitkin, Collins creates moulds of her body as well as her sisters to gain ownership, in a world where our bodies live in multiple realities.
English
166 pages
22 x 28,5 cm
Hard Back
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