John Brill: Splendid Isolation: The Pathological Self-Absorption Before the Age of Social Media

2017
Publisher: Kent Fine Art, New York.

Pages: 62. 36 plates

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“Toying with the idea of the negotiable nature of autobiography, Brill traces an arc through forty years of work, utilizing autonomous images of scripted self-portraits documented since the 1970s. The resulting body of work—the oxymoron “manufactured autobiography”—comprises an indecipherable conflation of dualities, all playing out on the sliding scales of autobiography and imagination, reality and fiction, representation and contrivance. . . “