Looking at Oneself

Looking at Oneself is a reflection on identity as a process of continuous transformation. Through images that fragment, deform and recompose, the work stages an unstable and shifting perception of the self, withdrawing from any final definition. The video constructs a suspended space in which recognition and estrangement coexist. The image multiplies, changes shape and continually escapes the gaze, evoking the difficulty of fixing a unitary and permanent identity. The cathode-ray monitor and the wooden plinth give physical presence to this unstable apparition. As the video runs in a continuous loop, with no recognisable beginning or end, the work returns identity as an open process, made of transformations, slippages and ongoing possibilities of redefinition.