Subtitled, What can we learn from art about our sense of identity, this short article explores some of the themes of the Wellcome Collection’s (London) show Identity: 8 Rooms, and appeared in Art of England (issue 67, 2010).
In today’s world, people have multiple identities, particularly with the Internet — our Facebook persona is not the same as our LinkedIn persona, and that is different from my Twitter persona, but then who goes to work, is a parent, does the chores, types this blog?