Manuel Antonio Cuevas Vidueiro · Origin 2017–2023

The intermediary

Year

2023

Medium

Oil on canvas

Size

120 × 70 cm

Series

Independent works and studies

And how will be the gaze of the other eye in this self-portrait? After all, the gaze of the one who is discovered is enough. Red reigns in all the splendor of its stridency. It is not a self-portrait for the sake of self-portrait, and where did the self-pleasure of this practice go? In reality, the vision the artist has of themselves exists to aggress with their gaze and to question the viewer, to interrogate what we are and for what purpose...

In 2023, “The intermediary” —a self-portrait that questions the viewer instead of pleasing them— announces the path the work follows today: Self-portraitism.