Yulia Markman

My Stranger Face is an installation work that includes three projectors in a dark room, accompanied by a voice over. 

This project demonstrates a two year exploration of my self identity as an immigrant and an outsider, through photographs of stranger men as well as photographs of public spaces that are devoid of people. For me, these contain potential environmental conditions for examination of the photographic representation of the body and its traces, even when it is absent, as a way to communicate the human condition. As a female photographer there is a play around power and vulnerability exchanged between both me and the subject. This creates a fragile intimacy with the subjects and enables a short glance into the depth of  the naked, uncovered human nature.  

The work also operates as a study – as a reference to the nude in the tradition of painting (naked vs. nude) as well as to the relationship between the sitter and the artist.

The installation functions as an illusion that appears and disappears  in a duration that is set for the viewer in advance and creates short encounters between the viewer and the images. This results in an elusive interaction and instilling the images with new meanings and interpretations.