untitled selves
2017
Evolving from his earlier self-portraits and the portraits of his parents (Frances and Joseph), Frank Rodick's untitled selves — a set of eighteen images — stand as another stage in the evolution of his engagement with memory, mortality, and the medium of portraiture. These self-portraits are stripped, flayed even — emptied of colour and stark in contrast, images in an active state of transformation and dissolution. They suggest something beyond evanescence—an unmooring, and a sense that life is "as much syncope as it is experience."
