Liquid Identity

These images that refer directly to passport photographs operate in a completely contradictory way. Rather than reveal the identity of the sitter they hide it.

The individual is lost as a unit and the image that remains represents a ''type of person". A liquid identity that encompasses innumerable people with similar physical characteristics is created and allows the viewer to recognize familiar faces or identify with these images, while asked to consider the concept of his own uniqueness.

Blurred frontal passport photograph of a person with short dark hair from Liquid Identity, representing a human type rather than a recognizable individual.

Heavily blurred passport-style portrait of a person with a closely cropped or bald head from Liquid Identity, obscuring identity and individuality.

Indistinct passport-style portrait of a person with long hair from Liquid Identity, questioning facial recognition, familiarity and personal uniqueness.

Blurred frontal portrait of a person with long dark hair from Liquid Identity, creating a liquid identity shared by innumerable people with similar features.

Blurred passport photograph of a short-haired person in dark clothing from Liquid Identity, where identification is replaced by anonymity and collective identity.

Blurred passport portrait of a person with long hair from Liquid Identity, inviting viewers to recognize a familiar face or project their own identity onto the image.

Indistinct passport-style image of a person with a closely cropped head from Liquid Identity, challenging the identifying function of official portrait photography.

Softly blurred frontal portrait of a short-haired person from Liquid Identity, questioning whether physical resemblance can define individual uniqueness.

INSTALLATION VIEWS

Installation view of ten blurred passport-style portraits from Liquid Identity at the 2014 Depression Era exhibition, Benaki Museum, Athens.

2014 / “Depression Era project”, Benaki museum, Athens, Greece

Gallery view of Liquid Identity at the Benaki Museum’s Depression Era exhibition, showing a typology of anonymous blurred faces questioning identity and uniqueness.

2014 / “Depression Era project”, Benaki museum, Athens, Greece

SELECTED PRESS

C41 Magazine / Maria Mavropoulou hides faces to make us all equal / english
FORMAT / Pilnuj swojej intencji / interview / polish
Photologio / interview / greek

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