100 breaths
1994
- Medium
- colour video, sound
- Measurements
- 52 min
- Place/s of Execution
- Melbourne, Victoria
- Accession Number
- 2002.172
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Gift of the artist, 2002
© Courtesy of the artist - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Throughout his career, Mike Parr has explored the body and its limits. After primarily making performance art in the 1970s, Parr began using print techniques in the 1980s to continue his interest in the psychological catharsis of self-analysis. The artist uses self-portraits drawn spontaneously, or photocopied until the image becomes distorted, to explore the unstable and shifting nature of identity. In the accompanying video 100 breaths, Parr sucks the prints toward his face, performing his own self-portrait in an act of endurance. In his ongoing representation of the self, Parr investigates the space between the physical body and the mind.