Browsing: Identity

Munch’s The Kiss transforms intimacy into a scene of psychological dissolution, where merged faces, dark interior space, and a distant window evoke desire, fear, and the loss of individual boundaries.

Taner Timur examines Ottoman and Republican history through social structure, class, political institutions, ideology, identity, Marxism, modernisation, and the methodology of historiography.

A sharply styled woman looks from inside a green automobile, transforming speed, luxury, public visibility, and controlled femininity into an Art Deco self-image.

A frontal face covered in red dots emerges within dense black-and-white repetition, transforming portraiture into a field of identity, gaze, pattern, and alienation.

Repeated female faces emerge and disappear among torn posters and curled paper layers, transforming the urban wall into a fragmented field of identity and memory.

The Ulixes mosaic presents Odysseus’s encounter with the Sirens, a central image of desire restrained through cunning, discipline, and self-imposed limitation.

Director and Context Pedro Almodóvar’s 2011 film The Skin I Live In / La piel que habito is one of…

A layered film image shaped by childhood trauma, performed identities, rewritten memory, and the unstable boundary between cinema and truth.