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Samuel Fosso’s SixSixSix at the NPG
PhotocriticEtcSamuel Fosso’s first UK solo display captures 666 different emotions
Striking photographs from a series of 666 self-portraits by the artist Samuel Fosso (b.1962) can be seen for the first time in a new display Samuel Fosso: Self-portraits just opened at the National Portrait Gallery.
This ambitious self-portrait series of large format Polaroids called SIXSIXSIX, was created by the Cameroonian-born artist in 2015. Each shot was taken against the same red backdrop with Samuel Fosso adopting an identical head and shoulders pose. Photographed every day in October and November 2015, each work is intended to reflect Fosso’s particular mood at that moment.
SixSixSix runs from 24 June to 24 September 2017, in Room 41 and 41a, Lerner Ground floor Contemporary Galleries at the National Portrait Gallery, London.
