Identity Crisis

Identity Crisis, is a series of props, in order to build an immersive environment holding “identity” together. The project brings to light, both my own personal confusion and struggle as well as our society’s itself, evaluating the meaning of Identity. The installation consists of seven metal sculptures, each of which aims to re-examine identity and along, the notion of authenticity, through a forged theater.

How are identities formed and co-formed in relation to their histories, currents and pasts?

Nowadays, we face an alternation of the concrete idea of what a self, an identity, an authentic character means. These exact, once concrete, concepts go through a period of crisis. In Greek, word crisis means revision, something ceases to be original and turns into something new, without knowing its “destination”. The project analyses and stays with the process of identity under the commonly used phrase “identity crisis” which brings the two notions together. My project aims to reclaim what we; human and non-human beings are encountering at the moment; a revaluation of our existence. All this experimentation takes place in an open theatre, life, a space that births identities, values and roles.

Identity Crisis, is a project reflecting on the aforementioned themes, through my own narratives, autoethnographies and searches of identity. It elaborates the fluidity of personal and cultural identity, touching on how external environments shape self-perception. Being affected and influenced by history and a series of facts, this work pays tribute to a series of political occasions that influenced my own perspective on the politics of life therefore identity. Along, it uses narratives of beauty, masculinity, sex-provocation and eroticism; it explores them examining classical ideals of objects and figures, transforming them into weary steel and brass mirroring our contemporary values against a reservation of characteristics and elements that would be canonically considered as extravagant.