I am Anon.

At a time when the conversation is about post-truth, the pressure falls implicitly on the self as a last refuge. Enthroned by many in a consumerist society, the self seems to be, on the other hand, a slippery and anonymous shadow that would find solace only wandering free like a good conscientious objector. I photograph wherever the "I" can inhabit - hiding and manifesting at the same time, shadow-like. These images are opposed to stereotyped images, which go from the outside to the inside, establishing control, conquering us, and gradually shortening our imagination. Here instead we can find ourselves as we are to ourselves, never strictly visible as others are. The work reflects this difference of perception back to the world, in search of a political translation, new ways of seeing. The title of the series is a paradox: "I Am" is an affirmation, "Anon" is a negation. It references Virginia Woolf's statement, "Anon has most often been signed by a woman". All authors face the dilemma of revealing their name. For Anonymous on the internet, somehow the shadow of anonymity helps change to reach further. Frames, screens, glass, fabric, or disorientating surfaces act as a limit here, preventing us from completing a "normal” reading of the object as something already known or given. These materials act as a sort of camouflage and a respite from the ways of societal representation - the viewer might join for a while to become, instead, anonymous and present, free like the unconscious.