GAS / Karin Crona
Today, society requires each and every one of us to adapt quickly. We are pushed into increasingly precarious conditions which cause stress: a General Adaptation Syndrome.
I wanted to make this state visible by playing with the fear that appears when I pull myself out of my comfort zone. It’s a game where I hide to be seen, where I hurt myself to feel better and where vulnerability has become a way of surviving.
I relate this work to performance art, putting myself on stage, using my body as a tool. It is also a creative process linked to my childhood, in the sense that I use the surroundings and what is already there to build a world of my own.
As both the photographer and the photographic subject, I investigate ways to express my vision and break through boundaries.
I was born in Sweden in 1968. I moved to Paris in 1999. These are my self portraits.
