The painting is part of an installation consisting of 144 small oil paintings on canvas commissioned through the web to an anonymous Chinese artist, protagonist of the video 'Il Sembiante'. The video shows the painter at work while portraying Eric. Eric is an ancestral spirit who becomes an instrument in the confidential ceremony of the mirror, giving rise to a series of duplications useful for objectivizing one's body, one's ideas, one's identity.
Poised between the centralization of the ego and the obsessive multiplication of the self, Hungry Ghost appears through the hands of an unnamed Chinese painter. The Semblant, in the act of painting, shows that split condition that Lacan synthesizes with the expression Other from itself, the moment in which that condition of dialogue with oneself is generated, in which the subject observes himself from outside and succeeds to analyze through one's own reflected image.
