Spiritual Faces

Andras Szirtes printed female portraits upon huge sheets of film, portraits previously manipulated, solarised, painted, faded and browned – processes aimed at getting at the ghost faces of the women portrayed.

The finished products tend to blend the angelic with the satanic, the masculine with the feminine, and the elderly with the young. It is bordering on the irrational how Szirtes manages to reveal the multiplicity of people’s personalities.