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16/04/2011Expats in Spain have a face for tomorrow, literally

Expats in Spain have a face for tomorrow, literally The Face of Tomorrow is a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalisation on identity.

What is the face of London, New York, Paris? What does a Londoner, a New Yorker, a Parisian look like?

The Face of Tomorrow is a concept for a series of photographs that addresses the effects of globalisation on identity. The large metropolises of the world are magnets for migrants from all parts of the planet resulting in new mixtures of peoples. What might a typical inhabitant of this new metropolis look like in 100 or 200 years if they were to become more integrated?

The artist is Mike Mike, a South African photographer based in Istanbul. His project deals with the notion of race, place, identity and belonging on both an extremely local level as well as on an impossibly ambitious, almost Borgesian, global scale.

The Face of Tomorrow attempts to find this face by taking photographs of the current inhabitants and compositing their faces to create a typical face. What they get is a new person -- a mix of all the people in that city. A face that doesn't exist right now, but a face, it seems, of someone quite real.

Face of Pamplona
Pamplona is the capital of the Spanish region of Navarra and is probably most famous internationally for its running of the bulls in July as part of its San Fermin festivities. Navarra has a sizeable Basque populaton and the Basque name for the city is Irun, although the region itself is not part of the Basque country.

The majority of the population of 170,000 is white of Mediterranean and Nordic origin. Spanish (Castillian) and Basque are the official languages. Apart from the influx of tourists every year for San Fermin, the city like most small towns, has not been greatly affected by the movements of people due to globalization.

After navigating past the very strict security with the help of the head of media relations, Mike set up in a beautiful new light-filled building in the communications faculty. Mike says that like in Hong Kong, the students understood the concept and were keen to give their email addresses so the artist could send results.

The University of Navarra draws students from all over Europe and the wider world and the resulting composite faces are perhaps more Spanish or European than typically Basque.

Faceoftomorrow.com / Expatica


2 reactions to this article

Avi Marranazo posted: 2011-04-20 12:25:33

Fascinating book with a related focus

Avi Marranazo posted: 2011-04-20 12:26:19

Here's the link
http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Interests-Ethnicity-Humanity-Migration/dp/1412805961/ref=sr_1_1?s=books

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2 reactions to this article

Avi Marranazo posted: 2011-04-20 12:25:33

Fascinating book with a related focus

Avi Marranazo posted: 2011-04-20 12:26:19

Here's the link
http://www.amazon.com/Genetic-Interests-Ethnicity-Humanity-Migration/dp/1412805961/ref=sr_1_1?s=books

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