Reclining across three wicker chairs lies a body with the face of a woman who is appealing to us in a fragile emotional state. "How can I reach you? How can I reach you?" she asks, moving her lips and blinking. Meanwhile, a soundtrack loops phrases such as "Where do I belong? Where do I belong?" until we realise that this human face belongs not to a head but to a cushion. The visible tripod and player, along with the toy-theatre-like props, underscore the staged nature of the installation, yet the texture of the human face and its urgent message engage us with disarming immediacy, a hallmark of Tony Oursler’s work. His practice is rooted in a fascination with dissociative identity disorder—a neurocognitive condition in which the personality splits in two in response to trauma. For him, it becomes a metaphor for the fluid subjectivities shaped within mass society and the technological world. His characters remind us of the fragile nature of identity, and of the tyrannical ways it is moulded by the media in contemporary life.