Marko Dutka, Daphne-Rembrandt
These portraits of Daphne Selfe challenge the reverence of ‘Old Master.’ Feminised as ‘Old Mistress,’ the compliment becomes an insult—revealing centuries of bias. If Titian or Rembrandt had been women, would history have framed their genius differently? These images question gender, power, and the language of art.
The choice of Daphne Selfe for this project is founded on several factors.
Selfe has a tremendous profile as muse for artists Barbara Hepworth and Sir William Coldstream. She has been photographed by Mario Testino, Rankin and Nick Knight, to name just a few. Daphne is the ideal choice for using a little gender manipulation to re-present some of the great geniuses of painting’s history. This body of work seeks to make the portrait both a representation of a population and a depiction of the individual, the unique self/Selfe.
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Marko Dutka Self Portraits
Quad Shop,
Bodleian Libraries
Broad Street,
Oxford.
OX1 3BG
25 October–
16 November
