guest room: ghislain pascal & sebastian perinotti

Guest Room fosters collaboration and sparks creative exchange. For this edition, galleries and curator Ghislain Pascal and New York-based photographer Sebastian Perinotti collaborate to explore the following theme:

"Identity on Collision Course"

Identities are not fixed. They move, clash, overlap, and collide with the world around us. Inside every image, there is a tension between how we see ourselves and how others see us, between the masks we wear and the truths that slip through. Photography has always been a stage for these collisions as traces of transformation, resilience and enrichment. A portrait can show intimacy while performing what is not there. An environment can hold both belonging and exclusion. A digital trace can be both a record and an invention. A face, a gesture, a place, a screen, all become sites where identities encounter friction, contradiction, and possibility.

Today, identity is pulled in many directions at once. It collides with history, with the environment, with culture, with technology. It collides with labels we inherit, embrace, or resist. It collides with images themselves and with the weight of representation and the power of reimagining.

For this Guest Room, we invite work that explores identity through this lens of collision. How do multiple selves meet within one body? How do different identities intersect or clash in public and private space? How do images expose or conceal the forces pressing against us? This call is an invitation to engage with identity not as a fixed state, but as a moving field of impact and encounter: a collision course where photography becomes a way to question, resist, and remake who we are with and against the world.