tag
identity
Identity is where the archive tracks how a person becomes readable through role, costume, face, text, source image, and pressure.
Meaning
Identity in the archive is not stable biography. It is the visible struggle between a person, a role, and the image that tries to summarize them.
This tag often appears with portraits, contemporary sources, masks, text, faces, and doubles. The painting is asking what remains when a public or private self gets forced into a sign.
Identity also helps connect the old and new parts of the archive. Earlier faces, internet figures, pop stars, boxers, and invented characters all share the same problem: being named by an image.
Tyler, The Creator - CHERRY BOMB
Jean Dawson & Rusowsky - KINKI FIGARO
Travels With
Open Questions
- Which works show identity as chosen, and which show it as imposed?
- When does text stabilize identity, and when does it damage it?
- How much of identity here is costume?