By: Victor Mutelekesha.
Photographed by Istvan Virag
Mixed Medium Sculpture.
Dimensions:150cm Diameter.
This project explores the self as a moving target, one with the potential of never being fully realized until the day we die. The self is in constant flux; what could better represent this state of flux than the clothes we choose to wear every day from the moment we are born until the very end? The larger component of the installation is made of clothing, which has become a defining factor of who we are and how we want the world to see us. Therefore, the self extends from the inner, truest self to the outwardly clothed self—an image that matters most to those who see us. Since throughout our years, we keep changing clothes like masks, our attached identity also remains an illusion; “The phantom of self,” so to speak.