Stripped of Humanity 

 

This work initiates an investigation into how the human subject is translated under systems that prioritize visibility, legibility and recognition. Using the face as a primary site of identification, the image applies controlled distortion to interrupt portraiture's promise of access to the self. Facial features remain structurally intact yet lose expressive specificity, producing a surface that is readable without being personal. The work positions the human figure as an interface, retained as form and reduced to data, reflecting contemporary processes in which identity is flattened into compliance with visual systems rather than understood as lived interiority.

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