Condenado Retrato VI. 2008. C-Print on paper and thread. 100×100 cm

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Éxtasis I. 2009.C-Print and thread. 35 x 175 cm

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Éxtasis II. 2009.C-Print and thread. 35 x 175 cm

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Éxtasis III. 2009.C-Print and thread. 35 x 175 cm

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Éxtasis IV. 2009.C-Print and thread. 35 x 175 cm

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Éxtasis V. 2009.C-Print and thread. 35 x 175 cm

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Éxtasis VII. 2009.C-Print and thread. 35 x 175 cm

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Trained in art history and special education, Spanish-based artist GERMÁN GÓMEZ is obsessively concerned with representation and portraiture, especially self-portraiture. His collaged and altered pictures, however, are never of himself. Rather, he takes up the notion, following novelists, that all fiction is, essentially, autobiography.

I cannot imagine a non-biographical photography. I take pictures as if I wrote a diary. The portrait has always been my language. In a portrait I am especially interested in and intimidated by the depth of the eye. To be able to grasp the look has always been the link between my life and my photography.

GERMÁN GÓMEZ lives and works in Madrid, Spain.