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Tsofia (self-portrait inside a woman from the Balkans)

The work Tsofia (2022) contains a video projection onto an image printed in black and white. Throughout this slow and gentle work Serlin projects her own face onto a black and white print of a woman’s portrait that she found in the Jewish cemetery in Belgrade, on a nameless headstone. Serlin found a physiognomic similarity between the faded portrait and her own face, and this discovery brought her a powerful experience of identification. In this work she attempts to bring the past to life by means of the present facial picture, pointing to the emotion of identification and the moment of finding yourself in the portrait picture from your past.

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