Identity

In my ongoing practice with self-portraiture I explore self-identity through fragmentation and physical intervention into the image. I work with printed portraits using collage, tears, overlays, threads, tape and other materials to dismantle and reconstruct the face, searching for what remains when the illusion of wholeness is disrupted. Each image is an experiment with a self that never feels final. True identity reveals itself in seams, distortions, missing parts and the attempt to repair or hide them. The photographs become material traces of tension between the visible and the hidden, between constructing oneself and realizing that the result will always be incomplete. The works are based on the idea that a portrait is never a literal representation of a person. It is a layered structure of memories, experiences, roles, doubts and emotions. I see the face as a space of ongoing reconstruction, where no definitive version of the self can ever exist.