Nómada is an installation project that reflects on the construction of identity in the era of liquid modernity and what role digital media plays in this process.
Individual identity consists of what makes each human being different from the rest and in what way we change over time. The concept of personal identity has been evolving over time, having been considered collective in nature until the Renaissance due to human beings acting as part of the social fabric. Starting with Romanticism, human beings began attempts to differentiate themselves from each other and develop their inner world and thoughts. In the era of late modernity, absolute truth disappeared and complicated an individual’s ability to base their principles on solid ideological foundations. We find ourselves in a social fabric marked by uncertainty, constant change, and global crisis, which ultimately leads to the individual crisis of the subject. There are no longer firm ideas to hold on to, rendering decision making of any kind a challenge, including questions of what and who we are. We must build our identity based on our abilities and a critical, thoughtful attitude towards what is around us, but also based on others. Human beings need each other and their environment in order to understand themselves, thus affirming that the subject cannot be built alone.
This expansion and continuous change is what I attempt to address with my work, presenting the new paradigms that arise in terms of individual human identity in relation to digital technological mediums.
