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The work of Fabrizio Arrieta (Costa Rica, 1982) understands personal identity as an unstable value transmitted by many factors that reveal the impact of mass media on the construction, metamorphosis, and control of our identity. Arrieta uses everyday images from fashion magazines and other social media as a starting point. These are, to some extent, the reflection of our times: how we act and relate to each other thanks to the internet and its effects on aesthetics, culture, and society. Arrieta wholly appropriates these images and their human forms to modify, tear, distort, scratch, darken, …