Focusing on Lassnig's elaborations of the self-portrait and her exploration of her relations with the object, animal and machine, this new catalogue presents works from 1942 until recent years. Lassnig's main preoccupation was a relentless self-questioning, one she subjected herself to throughout her life.Her self-portraits manage to be informal and are expressed in traumatic, Surrealist forms that merge the human with the animal, the human with the machine.This catalogue contains a selection of 45 paintings, most of them from the artist