“Picture Yourself”
Olivia Pintos-Lopez
12 Dec → 8 Jan 2011

Analog photo booths are a quintessential, yet vanishing, part of the mall experience. Closing the curtain of a photo booth creates a private space for self-reflection and self-representation in the transitory areas of commercial spaces. For Picture Yourself, Olivia Pintos-Lopez uses the photo booth on the floor above The West Wing to photograph participants and record a three-minute aural portrait as the images develop. The strip of photos is exhibited as a singular superimposed image. The sound portraits are presented as anonymous stories that the viewer can listen in on, disconnected from a particular portrait. The resulting portraits are exhibited in The West Wing and are added to over the two weeks as more portraits of mall visitors are collected.

This project has been generously supported by SPEAKR BOX.