Identity Matrix: Escape

PROJECT OVERVIEW

This project explores how individuals employ concealment as a means of psychological escape. Each image was created in collaboration with the subject, who selected their own hiding technique, such as blending into the shadows, concealing their features with delicate materials, or draping themselves in fabric. These vanishing gestures evolve into acts of resistance, an effort to evade scrutiny, imposed identities, and demands for visibility. The dot matrix's visual language highlights incompleteness and fragmentation, implying that identity is a dynamic and fragile concept. The human need to withdraw, change, and find temporary freedom in becoming invisible is reflected in the hazy distinction between presence and absence in these pictures.