CLINT ENNS - A Life in Photos

Paper: Hahnemühle Fine Art Archival Print
Sheet size: 40 × 40 cm with 1 cm white border around the motif.
Year: Edition of 2025
Edition: 5 + 1 AP
Signed, dated and with an edition number by the artist on a separate label.

Clint Enns – A Life in Photos

An old man stands, his back bare, in front of a wall covered with photographs. Dozens of portraits, documents, fragments of a biography surround him—as if life had decided to organize itself like an archive. But the man's face remains hidden from the viewer. Instead of a clear self-image, we see only the body, gazing at the images, as if at a tribunal of the past.

Clint Enns' A Life in Photos poses the question of identity in times of image overabundance. When one's life is documented through photographs, is there anything left beyond the images? Or has the self long since merged with its photographic reproductions?

The work depicts a paradoxical scene: an intimate confrontation with a life's work that simultaneously appears distant – as if the man were not looking at himself, but at a strange figure that he once was.