Cristina Nuñez is a self-taught photographer originally from Catalonia whose work is internationally renowned. Born in 1962, she started taking self-portraits in 1988 as a form of self-therapy, to overcome low self-esteem and stimulate her creative process. Up to the early 2000s, she produced photography books in which she addressed social questions through the portrait. On the margins of this public body of work, she continued taking self-portraits, which became Someone to Love.

Someone To Love (Premio Celeste 2012) landed at FIT in 2018. The author’s voice takes the viewer through her family history and childhood, her troubled adolescence as a heroin addict, and the evolution of her self-image, her relationships, and her discovery of self-portraiture as a tool for self-therapy.

Cristina Nuñez discovered so much about herself through taking self-portraits that she realized that this tool could become a powerful means of probing the inner life of each and everyone else: since 2005 she has been conducting The Self-Portrait Experience workshops all around the world.

In 2013 she started her ongoing net-art project La Vie en Rose, on video, performance and web platform, with the real goal of finding her perfect partner. Nuñez considers herself a social activist, using her own life to stimulate the viewer to mirror himself in her work.

Nuñez is now living and working in Ticino, Switzerland. In February 2020 she has obtained a PhD by Published Works at the College of Arts and Humanities, University of Derby, UK.

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Someone to love
2018 Edition
26.09 – 07.10

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