OVERVIEW OF THE PROJECT LINK TO THE THEORETICAL BACKGROUND

Through this medium, students can define their identity and configure and reconfigure some aspects of it, such as stereotypes, and the stigmas previously discussed in defining identity according to Goffman (2006). By being able to define their identity through art and not just reflect it, a cyclical effect is produced. The subject has a perception of the context (social identity) in which he lives, processes it (personal identity) and internalises it, which leads him to form his own identity (identity of the self), but at the same time he can express that identity through art by reconfiguring it and modifying the context. By modifying the context, it leads him to process it and reconfigure his self identity again (Fig. 17).

Modifying the context is thus another function of visual art, an aspect that influences self and group identity.