A man faces us head-on, his features broken into pink stripes, grids and checks that never quite line up. His eyes and lips are blocked out in deep red dots, and his hair is a mint-green zigzag against a soft floral ground. Who Am I? – 1 looks past the curated online face to the fractured person behind it.
WHO AM I? - 1
123 × 89 cm
Hand-block print and stencilling with pigment on cotton
2023
This artwork is part of Who Am I?, a series of portraits that peel away our near-perfect online avatars to reveal the fragmented self within a world that is always “connected”.