Ben Altman

  • Introduction
  • About/Contact
  • NEW
    • I Own This Stolen Land
  • INTRACTABLE HISTORIES
    • The More That Is Taken Away
    • Site/Sight
    • Seeing Memorials
    • Guantanámo Basement
    • Which Side Are You On
  • INVISIBLE HISTORIES
    • The Empty Centre
    • An Expatriate's Views
  • PLACE AND TIME
    • Memory Mechanism
    • Portraits/Interviews

Which Side Are You On?

Originally created for exhibitions with 2x2 Collective, these self-portraits were used in various  ways, some interactive.

Pepper Spray

These self-portraits were also created for a 2x2 Collective exhibition. Visitors to the gallery were invited to add their fingerprints to the Platinum/Palladium prints. The images, reprinted as pigment inkjet, were subsequently used as the lower half of the write-on exhibition Pencils Provided.


Individual Basement Pieces

Performance self portraits.