«It is right in this space between absence and mourning, that portaiture’s motionless interval unfolds» (Jean-Christophe Bailly, L’apostrophe muette: Essai sur les portraits du Fayoum, Hazan, Paris 1997, my translation).
Several of these pictures were featured in a solo exhibition at Wüstenblume Gallery, Trier (Germany) in 2005 and in a group show at G. Sciortino Modern Art Gallery in Monreale (Italy) in 2007, where one was awarded …