Paolo Roversi

I like how the photos are mysterious and try to conceal the truth.

Yohji Yamamoto

Autumn/Winter 2011

Autumn/Winter 2006

Yohji Yamamoto plays with tradition, making his garments over sized and unfinished. He also mixes the gender of his ccollections. Yamamotos intricate pattern cutting knowledge is clearly displayed. He describes his use of all black as a 'modest and arrogant at the same time'. I felt that his collections reflect elements of hidden identity and support my concept through the over sized cocooning silhouettes.

Rebecca Salter

Rebecca Salter is an abstract artist who's work has often been compared to Jackson Pollock. I love the grey tones used and the textures that are created.

Josue Castro

Josue Castros most recent work explores personal/hidden identities. His photos capture the inner truths that people don't want others to see. Castro seeks to explore the divisiveness people experience once their opinions are known—whether it’s support of gay marriage, religion or politics or involvement in a sub-culture. “People really change once they know your secret. Otherwise, they don’t care.  The idea is to make people feel that once you know the secret of anybody, you start treating the people different,” he adds. “That’s the main concept of this project.”

'Princess Hijab'

I came across an article the other day about a young graffiti artist nicknamed ‘Princess Hijab’. Their identity is unknown and strong feelings clearly displayed on the Paris metro.  What Princess Hijab is doing is what "she" calls "hijabisation," the act of adding black Muslim veils on half-naked women, and men, on the metro's fashion advertisements. As you may or may not know, in secular France, especially with the recent Sarkozy governement's Burqa Ban, this is a major act of political art, a potent formula of vandalism and discussion points. The Burqa Ban became apparent when people feared the true identity of those underneath the veil.

She is quoted as saying "If it was only about the burqa ban, my work wouldn't have a resonance for very long. But I think the burqa ban has given a global visibility to the issue of integration in France," she says. "We definitely can't keep closing off and putting groups in boxes, always reducing them to the same old questions about religion or urban violence. Education levels are better and we can't have the old Manichean discourse any more. Liberty, equality, fraternity, that's a republican principle, but in reality the issue of minorities in French society hasn't really evolved in half a century. The outsiders in France are still the poor, the Arabs, black and of course, the Roma."

Hidden Identity

Architecture and Urbanism 11:02
We can throw our possessions away but our identity still remains.

 

Friday Market by Heidrun Holzfeind

'Ones man's rubbish is another man's treasure'.

Wear and tear is unique to each individual.

Portraits of Victims by Sanja Ivekovic
The concept behind this is that it is a mmemorial of a group of people who are waiting to go into the concentration camp in Roma. They are all innocent individuals with one thing in common.

Paper Citizen by Sam Lewitt

War Department Archives at the National Archives, Washington DC 1939.

IDENTITY


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