Disposable identity

Humanity cultivated identity for centuries as if it were a family garden: a name, a craft, a faith, a place in the world were passed down almost like an inheritance. A person is no longer the bearer of a single stable form of self; we live in an era of hypermodernity in which identity ceases to be an essence and becomes a process of endless transformation amid migration, accelerating technological development, and the permanent presence of media. It is assembled and disassembled, updated and edited, like a profile online. At times, identity is something that can be worn once, bought in a store, “tried on” for a project or an evening. It can literally be consumed: swallowed like lunch and replaced without significant loss. Today one version of the self, tomorrow another, and more often a combination of them — a temporary assemblage of available cultural, social, and digital elements.

 

Medium: 100 hand-built ceramic heads (5-12 cm hight),  photo, digital, installation (work in progress)