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Figure and Portrait
Updated identity
Joart Kabeya
Nationality: Zambia
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Year: 2026
Technique: Mixt medias on canvas
55
63
in
"Updated Identity" is a surrealist work exploring collective identity in the digital age, where cultural memory and heritage evolve within the duality of physical presence and digital existence. The choreographed symphony of hands emerging in the foreground of a nostalgic optical-illusion bust, each grasping a smartphone capturing fragments of daily life, symbolizes humanity's adaptation in the digitalized age. Historically, hands symbolized labor and cultural transmission; here, they serve as metaphors for the collective mindset of modern humanity in Afro lens simultaneously creators, translators, and connectors,revealing how identity and social existence are increasingly redefined via interaction with screens based devices as gateways to performed and negotiating culture as content into networked digital realm. As human identity is continually rewritten at the intersection of these two modern realities, awareness becomes a resistance's form.
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