I

© 2000

Hannah Stegmayer

In I Franz Wassermann wraps up his head with transparent tape. The face of the artist is deformed and alienated brutally during this process. Being close to suffocation, the artist interrupts his performance and pulls the tape which resembles a mask off his face and pastes it to the mirror. Only now the beholder can realize that the camera has been recording the reflection of the artist but not the artist himself.