Alterum

Alterum is a spatial video installation that, starting from Bauman’s reflections on fluid identity, investigates the concept of “self” in a society divided between real and virtual. The contemporary tendency to virtualise one’s identity leads to a performative disembodiment through which individuals become organic-inorganic hybrids. In this project, the physical bodies lose their value by changing into objects/statues on which this new fluid identity is projected, while the inanimate objects of the virtual world come alive, breaking the barrier between real and artificial.