The Self Portraits / Portraits to Questions of Femininity

Since 2001, Patricia Reinhart has developed an ongoing series of self-portraits created in Parisian photomatons throughout the Métro network. These small public booths become temporary spaces of intimacy and self-staging, where private and public space intersect. Through repetition, gesture, and seriality, the works approach female identity as a shifting process of projection, embodiment, and observation.

Working within the familiar visual language of passport photography, Reinhart transforms the photobooth into a performative site in which self-portraiture becomes both personal reflection and an exploration of femininity, representation, and social inscription. Layer by layer, the series forms a fragmented visual archive in which photographic repetition functions simultaneously as self-observation and emancipatory gesture.

_{— Adapted from Barbara Rüdiger’s text in the monograph Patricia Reinhart
(Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2022).}

_{Barbara Rüdiger’s text in the monograph Patricia Reinhart
(Verlag für moderne Kunst, Vienna, 2022).}