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Examination series (2006)
This series, like the Universal Identity series, deals with the complexity and fluidity of identity and how it is dynamically constructed, shaped, and continually reshaped through experiences that each individual goes through. The series consists of seventeen handmade wooden light boxes, showcasing seventeen Xray-like translucent images. To create each of these “X-rays”, the artist revisited the negative collages that she had previously created for her Universal Identity series, this time printing them on translucent film. These “X-rays” reflect the composition of one whole person with aspects and attributes of other people. The images play with our assumptions and the ways that we tend to frame an identity without considering the complex and nuanced ways that it is actually formed. In a way, these “X-rays” symbolize the artists’ close examination (hence the title Examination) of identity as a medical doctor would examine a patient’s X-ray.
































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