{"id":3554,"date":"2015-02-18T11:36:57","date_gmt":"2015-02-18T11:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=3554"},"modified":"2015-05-06T06:46:49","modified_gmt":"2015-05-06T06:46:49","slug":"a-idenity-3-sire-zoe-schmid","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=3554","title":{"rendered":"Sira-Zoe Schmid: The Untitled Portrait Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=3590\">Return to Theme Content<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4001\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-TROOPS_MEN.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4001\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-TROOPS_MEN.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Sira-Zoe Schmid\" class=\"wp-image-4001 size-full\" height=\"535\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-TROOPS_MEN.jpg 600w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-TROOPS_MEN-150x134.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-TROOPS_MEN-300x268.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Sira-Zoe Schmid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The <em>Untitled Portrait Series<\/em> deals with the question of uniform in daily life and war.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4000\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-ROWSINGLS2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4000\" src=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-ROWSINGLS2-300x212.jpg\" alt=\"\u00a9 Sira-Zoe Schmid\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4000\" height=\"212\" width=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-ROWSINGLS2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-ROWSINGLS2-150x106.jpg 150w, https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/zoe-600-ROWSINGLS2.jpg 425w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4000\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">\u00a9 Sira-Zoe Schmid<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The series consists of 120 pictures \u2013 portraits of 12 women and 12 men, each person from 5 perspectives \u2013 in which the room and the uncovered body fades away: \u201cUndefined white space and a body in dark clothing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The composition and systematic, archival approach of the pictures was inspired by half-body portraits of soldiers and police photographs, or mug shots.<\/p>\n<p>To create a link between uniforms in daily life and war, I was looking for references of military-uniforms in our daily life\u2018s clothing, which are made more visible due to the photographic technique and composition. On the other hand the body becomes a sculpture, and by erasing the face the body becomes a body without identity. Yet, this identity is not entirely lost. The clothes and the body within the pose (of a soldier) start to take the role of the storyteller and all together lead to a closer examination of the essentials of the portrait itself and an analytic juxtaposition of these human forms of representation.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/portfolio\/2015\/identity\/zoe-album\/album\/index.html\">Visit Portfolio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Biography <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sira-Zo\u00e9 Schmid is an artist, with a focus on photography, text, installation and performance. She is living and working in Vienna, Austria. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna in the class &#8220;Fine Art and Photography&#8221; under Matthias Herrmann and Martin Guttmann, and graduated in 2013.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vjic.org\/vjic2\/?page_id=3590\">Return to Theme\u00a0 Content<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Return to Theme Content The Untitled Portrait Series deals with the question of uniform in daily life and war. 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