What I Look Like, What I Feel Like

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“In 24 pairs of mixed media photographic prints, Khan’s photo series “What I look like, What I feel like” (2008) juxtaposes introspective interrogations with their corresponding socially contracted identitarian constructions centred around race, gender, class, education and religion. The works question the variable dimensions of how reality is put together through an intimate inquiry of the inner self and its relation to a socially negated public face. Each pair of work offers different perspectives on the performative dimension of how a public expression of oneself is formed and managed, leading to the concept of an ‘individual’ according to and determined by social constructed conventions – including one’s own assumptions about social roles. ” – Fouad Asfour