“Every day, we create new identities on social media. Fragmentary and carefully chosen stories from our lives cross paths with staged photographs; that is, with different or optomized versions of ourselves. Again, and again, the question arises to what extent these artificial, digital identities are real, and whether reality depends on a tangible (human) corporeality.” (Steinek, S. 2018; 166)
e-maGen is a series of images which explores and comments on:
❀ The e-maGined world, the creation of a new identity, a 'virtual person'
❀ The culture of social media aesthetics and it's transience
❀ How people use online identities to portray different personas
❀ The question of the 'true self'
❀ The 'e-maGined identity' versus the real identity:
✧ Is it just a performance for an audience?
✧ A filtered identity where features are manipulated?
✧ Can she escape being human to be non-human?
✧ Or does she still appear human, and can't escape being human?