Portrait

For the public space of Córdoba and the Museo Palacio Dionisi, Roberto Jacoby selected an image of the series Photos 2016 in which he uses twelve self-portraits with different gestures to express a diversity of feelings. This work, where the artist presents and alludes to himself as the sole protagonist, inevitably challenges us through the reiteration of a single face, the expression of which we perceive as a mask, albeit one that questions us. Allowing oneself to be seen does not necessarily mean showing oneself, yet the secret of this new action seems to lie in the integrations of the forms through which Jacoby has been presenting himself, oftentimes on the fringe where questioning is more corrosive. The artist's works in the media, acting, song writing, and his approach to society are some of the aspects (or masks) that set him apart. Multiplied on the streets of Córdoba, his face is now an image that also operates as a mirror.