{"product_id":"santiago-sierra-self-portrait","title":"Santiago Sierra – Self-Portrait","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eSantiago Sierra's \u003cem\u003eSelf-Portrait\u003c\/em\u003e (2006\/2024) is a hand-signed and numbered \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/pigment-prints\"\u003edigital pigment print\u003c\/a\u003e on hand-torn Hahnemühle rag paper, issued in 2024 in an edition of 45 + 8 \u003ca href=\"\/pages\/glossary-of-editions#Artists-Proof\" title=\"Artist's proofs explained\"\u003eartist's proofs\u003c\/a\u003e from a photograph of 2006.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"\/collections\/santiago-sierra\" title=\"Santiago Sierra\"\u003eSantiago Sierra\u003c\/a\u003e shows himself from behind: a shaved head, a dark knitted sweater, a white wall. With no face to read, the image offers no expression, mood, or age to hold onto, only the posture and nape of a figure we might recognise but cannot interpret. The refusal is deliberate and consistent with the \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/political-art\" title=\"Political art\"\u003epolitical artist's\u003c\/a\u003e wider practice, in which people are almost always hidden or made unidentifiable, and not showing is treated as a stronger gesture than showing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003eAs an anti-portrait, the limited edition \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/collections\/contemporary-photography\"\u003ephotograph\u003c\/a\u003e turns self-representation into a comment on visibility and control.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Santiago Sierra","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55631007351126,"sku":null,"price":1200.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0902\/3035\/8358\/files\/santiago-sierra-self-portrait-photographs-8138664.jpg?v=1791437292","url":"https:\/\/mltpl.art\/products\/santiago-sierra-self-portrait","provider":"MLTPL","version":"1.0","type":"link"}