Ich bin mir sicher (I´m self-assured)

Installation, 2010

4 photo booth prints, passport.

New laws in germany established a new standard for passport headshots, a “biometric” passport:

  • no caps/hats,
  • no smiling,
  • no hair obscuring the face,
  • eyes open.

Sitting down in a photo booth that featured biometric photos in their advertisement, i took 4 photographs, each with an “error” and digitally merged parts from every picture to create a formally “correct”, but forged composite.

The source images, and the passport containing the composite photo were shown together at Trinitatiskirche, Cologne.

Installation view at Trinitatiskirche, Cologne.
Installation view at Trinitatiskirche, Cologne.
Installation view at Trinitatiskirche, Cologne.
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