MAPS & NETWORKS - CONCEPT

Our work is a representations of people's identity that you wouldn't always see. Digging more into he cultural side, we wanted to present art from their ethnicities by painting on their face, which we then projected over the bare-faced photographs. We selected three women, each of a different ethnic background, those being: Hong Kong, Nepal, Ghana/Saint Lucia and each with an interesting story to tell. We wanted our models to express their fondness for their culture and to share any experiences they have had with mistaken identity and stereotypes. This can be heard aloud, (through 4 speakers set up to create a surround sound effect) all voices playing at once - as we wanted the audience to listen in closer, trying to figure out what is being said. The amount of sound going on at once is supposed to transmit the idea of a lot of individuals in the same position.

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