TITLE: The Psychoanalytic Mirror of Fragmented Identity

This project, developed over the past fifteen years, explores and documents the paradox of introspection. Each image is a fragment, a facet, an experience, where the "truth" or "authenticity" of the self (if such a thing exists) emerges not from an individual image but from the ensemble, from the multiplicity, from the juxtaposition of states and moments in time.

In this colourless territory, the face ceases to be appearance and becomes question. These self-portraits do not close wounds; they transform them into language. They do not promote answers; they manifest interrogations. Perhaps, in that silent echo, the viewer will also discover that their identity is a cracked mirror, incomplete... and profoundly human.

These images are traces in time: anxiety, strangeness, chaos, winter, silence, summer, etc. In them, the visible is merely the tip of the iceberg; the decisive occurs in the margin, in what is not shown but is felt: the texture of doubt, the gravity of the unfinished gesture, the weight of a shadow that refuses to separate from the body.

This plural approach to the self is profoundly contemporary, and within it there is also an elemental honesty, arising from the tension between intentionality and chance: the author does not claim to know who he is, does not present a consolidated and coherent identity, but rather shows himself investigating, questioning, exploring and in this state of investigation resides the subjective truth of these self-portraits.

AUTHOR: Tomas Rotger Cardona (Spain)

Tomàs Rotger (Sant Lluís, Menorca, 1971) is a self-taught art photographer whose trajectory has been devoted entirely to black and white artistic photography. His initial approach to the image was fortuitous in 1993, but soon evolved into an exclusive dedication to photographic creation from a deeply personal and conceptual perspective.

In the late 1990s, he embraced photography not merely as an expressive medium, but as a complete artistic discipline, approaching both personal projects and professional commissions with the same authorial rigour. Concurrently, he began studies in Fine Arts, enriching his vision with aesthetic and theoretical reflection that transcends the purely technical.

His work is characterized by a solid conceptual coherence: he privileges the artist's vision above all other considerations, employing black and white as a tool for abstraction and symbolism.

While he is professionally recognized for his intense and atmospheric photographs of concerts, performances, and the rock music universe, his artistic production also encompasses portraiture and self-portraiture as spaces for identity and emotional exploration.

With more than thirty years of experience, Tomàs Rotger represents a singular voice within Spanish contemporary photography: a silent voice, in black and white, yet profoundly resonant.