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Lost identity[i]
The news that reaches me through various media channels does not worry me. Or does it?
My studio is warm, my new work is progressing well. Completed my exhibition in Paris. A group exhibition, which includes my work, opened today in Berlin. Didn’t go to the opening. Dubai will also start soon.
Any news today? How long will it last? All these streams of information do not change my mind: that we are losing our identity. Our self-image or self-concept is dissolving in the confusion of the world we now live in.
Are we still the same person we were 20 or 30 years ago? When we were young and the world was still open to us?
As a young artist, perhaps I had a different identity, than I do now? Do my personal identity and collective identification coincide. Or is there a significant difference there. An artist’s struggle with the identification of the world?
When I look as an artist at all these confusing streams of information, with threatening or non-threatening undertones, I am still troubled. If I were to surrender to that, I would be lost as an artist. Then my creativity will be lost in an identity crisis, which I absolutely do not want to get into. I will lose the creative tension. My life as an artist will then be in danger.
