A figure splits, doubles, replicates. Gohar Martirosyan presents Identity, a VR film that explores personal identity not as a fixed state, but as a fluid multiplicity. In this immersive work, selfhood does not emerge as a unified construct but as a fractured fresco, shaped by migration, diasporic memory, gender expression, and cultural displacement. The body may remain still, but the psyche is in motion: layered, colliding, resisting coherence.

The narrative unfolds through the intimate voice of Sacha Eusebe, a South African artist based in France, whose lived experience traverses intersecting cultural, racial, and gendered realities. With a background that includes collaborating with Anne Imhof, modeling for Balenciaga, and working behind a desk at a Marseille rave club, Sacha becomes the film’s gravitational center, a prism through which Martirosyan sketches a counter-cartography of identity: disidentification, embodied plurality, and in-betweenness.

The work draws inspiration from The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1, whose words surface like a refrain: “I have always been tormented by the image of a multiplicity of selves. Some days I call it richness, and other days I see it as a disease […] My first concept about people around me was that all of them were coordinated into a whole, whereas I was composed of a multitude of selves, of fragments.”

Yev Kravt

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