Midterm Intervention- Iris G.

ART INTERVENTION

What Are You? Digital Media 2026

This is my Art Intervention piece called, Identity & Ipseity

Themes:  Intersectionality, Gender, Race, Categorization, Othering, Bureaucracy, Internal Conflict

This is an art intervention that visualizes the exhaust of having to constantly exist in categories and identity labels that often try to reduce and classify my life and the lives of others.

Here, identity is represented by the white torn up paper. The paper is filled with labels that we use and are used on us. These labels are used to simplify our existence for others; the "what" they say we are. By showing this I want the viewer to understand that identity is not for us, it's a category and a script that is assigned to us, and we are expected to perform.

Selfhood or Ipseity is represented on the purple side and it expresses the "who". While the side that represents identity is flat and torn, the side that shows Selfhood is filled with organic shapes, lines, purple shades. I picked the color that more represents me and how I feel about myself. It goes against the "black or white" of race labels, and the "blue or pink" of the gender binary.