Identity?

There have been significant shifts in art, artists that critique and interrogate perceptions of the human body. This however has been embedded and immersed not only in the content and ideas surrounding the work, but also the way in which the art has been formed in ways of canvas, brush, frame and platform.  Physical and mental limitations as a stable and finite form of self has been progressively eroded, which artists have investigated the contingency, temporality and instability of the body.  By exploring the human body we are immersed in ones identity, whether being notorious or concealed, we become oblivious to the problematic formality of identity. 

Identity, which is not an inherent quality, rather it is acted out within and beyond cultural boundaries. Therefore identity is never static, it is always changing and corrupting as humans change and develop into age. It becomes a problematic status in which an artist will never capture the true identity of one at that exact time, and an increasing gap immerses, as the artist’s own perceptions and decisions interfere with capturing that identity. In contemporary practice artists prolifically use their own bodily existence more commonly within performance, which lets the viewer capture and immerse in the identity of the artist performing at that exact time and space with no extrinsic or material interference. 
Warr, T. (Ed.). (2000). The artist's body. Phaidon.