
17 Apr Juan Stockenstroom’s haunting series Otherness reimagines human beings
Juan Stockenstroom‘s haunting photo series Otherness, reimagines people with a slightly different twist. Using digital photo manipulation, he edits the images to present an alternate look at what being human could be.
Juan was inspired to create otherness after reading about a mythological Chinese figure called Cangjie who, as the legend goes, invented the Chinese logogram figures. According to folklore, he had four eyes with four pupils. Juan was fascinated by the idea of how society would respond to someone with multiplied facial features, and began to mould alternate beings to this effect.
“Envisioning different people in one body, different voices of the other-selves, Otherness reflects on the various ways technology allows us to present and project multiple identities on multiple social platforms,” says Juan.
“My work exaggerates the merging of fact and fiction and underlines the altered social face we have become accustomed to presenting in this highly digitised era.”
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