Two sly and provocative photographs by French artist Gilles Barbier toy with our expectations of self portraiture. Rather than satisfying us with a close-up of the artist’s face, Barbier frustrates by challenging us to locate a figure in a vast Marseille cityscape. Part of a larger philosophical interrogation of the notion of identity at the millennium, which has a particular inflection in Marseille’s polyglot environment, Barbier’s self-portraits might comment on the ineffectiveness of political critique and the power of an individual voice.