The Ego-culture rules. In a time where individuality is increasingly important, I present my project #SUPEREGO, a lavish installation of portraits of myself in various media. #superego is the sequel to my social embroidery installation 'Crossover Collective', in which I try to connect people through craftsmanship, tradition and normal analogue communication with each other. With this new body of work my ego is leading. Because, after all, I am the most important in the world, right?
According to Freud, 'superego' is an aspect of a personality that combines all our internalized moral norms and ideals we learned from our parents and society. The superego offers guidelines for making judgments. This view seems to have been made redundant by current events …