Alter, 2024

Photograph, pigment print on FineArt Baryta Hahnemühle, 105 x 135 cm

In seeking to understand the world solely on the basis of their observations, many philosophers in the wake of Descartes have concluded that the only thing that can be certain is the existence of the thinker. But then, if ‘I am my world’, where does the other person fit in? It is to this dual constitution that the philosopher Edmund Husserl arrived: Even if the other is resolutely foreign to us, we nevertheless perceive it in an analogy with our own experience. The other than me is another me, an alter ego.