Description
Naqab is an artist's book that uses the metaphor of masks to investigate the social systems, inherited behaviours and personal histories that shape identity. Combining photography and writing, it examines the roles we inherit, perform, resist and, ultimately, choose. Across thirty portraits, some masks exist as individual explorations while others unfold as thematic series - including Red, Motherhood and Fairytales - where a single idea expands into multiple perspectives. Designed as an archive rather than a linear narrative, the book invites readers to navigate the work in fragments, mirroring the nature of identity itself. Rather than searching for a singular, authentic self, Naqab questions whether identity is fixed or continually constructed through memory, performance, and lived experience.
