Pablo Chiereghin's new Polaroid series project "Portraits with telephone numbers", exposes individuals that took the risk of writing their telephone number on their portrait. The project is linear, simple and as analogical as low tech. The model voluntarily accepted to disclose a very private way of contact, giving the spectator the possibility to call a face that can be anybody. The core of the project is not the portrait itself, rather the interaction that happens before and after the portrait.  In “Picture of a Lie,” Pablo Chiereghin asks his model to repeat his or her worst lie in front of the original victim. The goal is to depict not the person but the lie itself. In his second project, “Birthday Suit,” people are paid to pose in a London shop window for a portrait taken by a naked photographer. The eyes of the fully dressed model reveal the nakedness behind the camera.

In her project “nach acht / past eight a.m.,” Hanna Haböck portrays people who are still asleep, resting in undisguised and natural poses, in twelve different early-morning atmospheres. Arranging the various portraits in a series effects a transformation of the private. Torn from the protected and isolated contexts in which they lay, the sleepers suddenly appear in a public space.

see the "Portraits with telephone numbers" project featured on La Repubblica.it

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Zeinlhofergasse 7, 1050 Vienna, Austria  // www.anzenbergergallery.com
Opening: Friday, October 29 at 19.00 - Exhibition goes until: 31. Januar 2010
Opening hours: working days from 10 am to 6 pm
The exhibition is part of EYES ON European Month of Photography Vienna