#nextluk
Portugal
2019
The #nextluk project illustrates today’s identity mutations. Reproducing Facebook profile pictures with manipulated cyanotypes, Ivan Da Silva questions the current means of representation, individuals’ self-perceptions, the way popular language evolves and the place that social media have. Although humans are mostly non-nomadic, social media have turned them into digital nomads and lead to an ephemeral representation. These profile photos are a key tool to establish a social profile and display a personal reality, unique to each user.
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About the artist
Ivan Da Silva was born in Porto in 1989. He studied optometry, which took him to visual anthropology and photographic chemistry. He wrote a thesis in image design when studying in Beaux Arts entitled « Photographic processes as a dialog with social behaviours ». He is part of the artist residency of the Vila Nove Biennale, Cerveira, Portugal.