Chances are I might disappear (2010-ongoing)
From the age of twenty, the Danish photographer Malou Bumbum begins to photograph herself obsessively, trying to understand her surroundings and to find answers to the problems she experiences. She wants to know what she looks like, to capture her ever-changing body. Photographing herself after being hit by her ex-boyfriend, taking a selfie with her siblings and their deceased mother, documenting herself laying drunk and sad on the bed, and taking a picture as she jumps into a Thai lake during a memorable encounter.
‘Chances are I might disappear’ is an ever-expanding archive of around 800 self-portraits, in which Bumbum asks questions about her identity and what it means to be a woman in contemporary society. Her series is a therapeutic process that helps her to deal with life. She feels attracted to the connection between mind and body, how they can lose sight of each other and how the camera can be the connecting, healing link. The work was first shown in 2018 as an installation at the graduation festival of the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague, and has been taking on new forms ever since. In Noorderlicht Studio she presents a new selection from her series.
