This exhibition draws inspiration in part from Milan Kundera's book Identity. From birth, every individual possesses an identity, existing within invisible constraints that govern behavior—it can be a designation, a prejudice, a shackle, or a symbol that one person projects onto another. A person may carry two, three, or even more identities. In Kundera's Identity, the protagonist navigates multiple roles: one as a lover in daily life, another as a secret correspondent writing ambiguous love letters, and beyond these, the book explores various social and psychological constructs that shape identity.

Similarly, the question arises: what roles do artists assume within their work? What kinds of identities are embedded in and enacted through a piece of art? Like stories, artworks carry traces of the artist's choices and intentions. Just as we infer a person's character or history through small details—such as the watch they wear or the wallet they carry—so too can we approach an artwork as a set of signs, connecting to the artist's perspective, context, and experience. Every form, color, and gesture can convey an identity the artist chooses to reveal or conceal.

Leon Battista Alberti, in On Painting, emphasized the artist's mission as discovering new images and subjects, reflecting the richness and diversity of lived experience. When viewing art, beyond the visible composition or formal qualities, we are drawn to the artist's mode of representation—the process of translating memory, atmosphere, or inner reflection into a tangible form. Representation may not merely reproduce external appearance; it can convey mood, emotion, or memory—a scent, a strand of hair, a fleeting gaze at a stranger on a certain day. In this sense, identity and experience are inseparable from artistic creation, and the work becomes a vessel through which the artist's hidden selves are made perceptible, inspiring continuous reflection and engagement.