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Through photography and video, Christto Sanz explores ideas related to identity and obsessive behaviors. Drawing from Sigmund Freud and Westphal and Shneider, his work is an approximation to the psychoanalytical through the self-portrait. In the project Toc Toc, Who’s There?, the artist examines the mental disorder OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder), the mind’s obsessive habits and the ways it distorts and mutilates our identities. “My work explores traumas or situations related to the psyche, moments of crisis and ideas that are part of the creative process for the artist,” the artist states. “I am interested in intimate worlds and the course of a longed-for identity.”

Images provided by the artist

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