Lauryna
Narkeviciute

Graduate
Central Saint Martins
MA Fine Art: Digital

Incognito

#Body #digitalart #human #Identity #newmedia

"Incognito" refers us to the "unknown". In the face of a pandemic and recurrent coronavirus outbreaks, we lose our coordinate axis, become depersonalized, unknown, perhaps unfamiliar to others and ourselves. We lose our most essential sign - the face - literally, covering it for the sake of our own security and the security of others. To a greater or lesser extent, while we no longer can be as we displayed ourselves to us and those around us in the pre-pandemic world, we also lose that face."Incognito" work is based on philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's thoughts on human sociality and face-to-face philosophy. In his work "Ethics and Infinity", Emmanuel Levinas talks about meeting the face and ethical responsibilities. He says that since the Other looks at me, I am responsible for him - face obliges. This project raises the question of the meaning of responsibility in a faceless society. It is a search for signs of a collapsed identity of a pandemic human and a pandemic society. It is longing for man, humanity.