This exhibition offers the first systematic, although admittedly partial, retrospective of Jorge Molder (Lisbon, 1947), a renowned Portuguese artist with a significant international career. Spanning fifty years and consisting of numerous series, some of them very extensive, his prolific output does not lend itself to a comprehensive retrospective. Instead, this exhibition focuses on his work between 1991 and 2003. The first chronological marker leads us to the moment when Jorge Molder began to take his own figure, often his face, as a recurring object of representation, in order to stage a character within his studio – or multiple variations of it – that is largely abstract and unfathomable: a personification of the double. The second chronological marker corresponds to the moment when the artist integrated digital technology into his working process. That character is constructed – or rather, dramatized – through a combination of pose, gesture, and expression, as well as the interplay of light and shadow, being rendered as pure artifice. As the artist has repeatedly noted, self-representation in these works is not synonymous with self-portraiture. The exhibition opens with a series of photographs taken between 1981 and 1986. Originally titled self-portraits, it features images where the subject eludes the camera’s objectifying gaze. These are paired with two series from 1986 – staged portraits of fencers and waiters – which obliquely foreshadow Jorge Molder’s later work on self-representation. Given its breadth, the exhibition is split into two consecutive parts, both of which can function as an exhibition in itself.