Artefact Concept Note:
‘Identity’ explores the fragile, often painful tension between who we truly are and who society wants us to be. It reflects how personal identity is shaped, challenged, and sometimes overwritten by external expectations—how idealistic notions of perfection push us to lose the raw, imperfect parts of ourselves in the quest to belong.
Drawing from glitch feminism’s core idea of understanding how systems of power shape our identities and creating space for transformation and liberation by disrupting the system, this work uses the glitch as a metaphor for moments of fracture and rewrite in identity. At its heart, this piece reveals the battle between authenticity and conformity—between embracing our real traits, like sensitivity, stubbornness, and restlessness, and adopting traits society praises, such as obedience, politeness, and ambition.
This pressure slowly chips away at our sense of self, until the line between who we really are and who we pretend to be starts to blur.
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