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rob birch

Folkestone
I am an artist and researcher. I create digital photo collage portraits that explore the notion of identity as a shared and sensorial experience.
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At the core of my practice lies this question. “How can I, a white working-class, straight, cis-gendered male, define a place within a discourse of identity that conforms to a traditional experience of self – which is a series of racialised, colonial, patriarchal, and socio-political hierarchies – whilst rejecting such conceits as outdated, riven with violence and no longer fit for purpose? 

My work is a collage-based visual enquiry into a postcolonial, unrecorded, working-class notion of self. It is a layered study of the forces and pressures placed upon us all – which have a lasting effect in this post truth age.

We live in a post truth world where what we think we know is more important than what we know to be true. I create digital photo portraits and collages that explore the validity of identity in a world which does not value or understand what it can be. My work is an exploration of identity without representation. It is one that explores the notion of self as a felt experience, one not grounded in notions of likeness and kudos, but a shared experience between an infinite number of social and political relationships.

 

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