Portraits of Barbara Sch., 2016
Part of a photographic series of patients with Alzheimer-Disease, 2016
Regina Hügli
Our face is a central space for our identity – both for self-perception and for the perception by others. The older we grow, the more experiences have left their traces in it – life and personality have had their share in shaping it.
Yet patients with Alzheimer-Disease often can’t recall the details of the life they lived through, the experiences they made. The forgetting person retreats to an inner hide-away, the personality seems absent and present at the same time. The face as space of identity is questioned.
Memory is said to be the constitution of personal identity – what happens to identity, when the memory of personal experiences fades away?
