Behind the masks we wear

‘Behind the masks we wear,’ a piece which I exhibited in our year 2 show “Things Pull Apart”, is a breaking point for trajectories for my on-going art practice. This work specifically out of the two works exhibited in the show, draws the contentious transients of previous concepts such as gesture, with ideas such as freedom and energy to collide with these new pretentious ideas of identity. 

The encounter with the tittle ‘Behind the masks we wear,’ seems illustrative and derives the ideas of social identity in this work. Identity which we conceive to appear as ones inner self represented  and illustrated in this work through the face. An identity which we acutely assume is a truthful means to the way one self represents and documents themselves. Photography which is perceived to be truthful, displaying the contentious act of reality, and the illustrates the persona of ones true identity, but it does not. With the anonymity of technology, the ability to change the DNA makeup of photographs which accurately conveys a representation of the truth, is manipulated and mediates a gap between truth and what becomes fictional. Confronting our perceptions of what in fact we conceive to be truthful. Surrounded in a society with this ability to change your DNA make up by concealing and confining or correcting pretentious attributes to edit your own persona, it becomes not a mere coincidence that we ultimately are mediating a gap between a sense of hyper reality and ones true identity.

The masks we wear contentiously hides the truth of ones true identity.