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The following pages are images of an installation exhibited in 1996. The work combined objects, images and sound to create narratives, which addressed the issue of identity through the use of a cast of fictional characters who represent the multiple psychological personas that form a whole individual.

The installation employed the body, specifically orifices - eye, ear and mouth - as sites of investigation that bought forward this dissection of personality and referred to the discovery, acknowledgement, conflicts, sources and experiences of this fragmentation of the self.

The frame of the work was the room itself where stereotypical characters were seen and heard through enlarged, fragmented body parts. The ear presented them inside, where the visitor could hear their constant streams of consciousness. Inspired by Plato’s belief that the eye functioned by emitting light rays outward onto the world as opposed to inward into the retina, the eye projected collaged photographic images of the characters interacting in everyday life; also, its mechanical blinking alluded to the body as machine. The mouth introduced in an interrogational manner, facts that define identity in society, playing with language and compulsive behaviors

The purpose of this piece was to build a space where shifts of scale, fantasy, dislocation, irony and humor created an environment of psychological recognition for the viewer.



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