Image and Identity

Are we defined by our ancestry, DNA, heritage, history, religion, or perhaps by the environment, family or friends, our fashion, our behaviour or perhaps even more than all these influences, by the images we make of ourselves? In our visual culture, images are, more than ever, the creators of our identity. Through photography, we are constantly reinventing ourselves, not only through the countless number of selfies but more deeply through questioning ourselves in critical and inquisitive images. In the Image and Identity exhibition, we collected photographic artworks that show, with humour and depth, with abundant creativity and investigative honesty, the many different identities we have that are all ultimately connected as the global human identity.