To feel at home is often understood as a sense of belonging. It emerges through familiarity, recognition, desire, and the relationships that connect us to others and to the world around us. Yet belonging is never entirely secure. It depends upon the stories we tell about ourselves, the places we inhabit, and the images through which we come to recognize who we are.

Today, these processes increasingly unfold through mediation. Virtual spaces, social platforms, and digital images do not simply represent the self; they actively participate in its construction. The experience of identity is no longer immediate, but refracted through signs, symbols, and representations that continuously reshape how we understand ourselves. In this sense, virtuality does not distance us from reality so much as provide new conditions through which reality is experienced.

This transformation is inseparable from what Guy Debord described as the society of the spectacle. Experiences, desires, and forms of self-expression are translated into images, circulated as commodities, and reabsorbed into systems of consumption. Appearance begins to take precedence over lived experience. Identity becomes increasingly mobile, detached from fixed locations and redistributed across multiple social, technological, and symbolic contexts. The self appears less as a stable essence than as an ongoing process of negotiation between desire, representation, and belonging.

Yet this condition is marked by a contradiction. The proliferation of images promises ever greater possibilities for self-creation and connection, while simultaneously producing uncertainty about what is authentic, shared, or real. How does one construct a sense of self in a world saturated with images? What becomes of belonging when identity is endlessly reproduced, circulated, and transformed?

Debt Jubilee: Metamorphosis approaches these questions through a constellation of works that combine found footage, generated imagery, staged scenes, and virtual environments. Together, they examine the psychological and emotional dimensions of mediated existence: the ways desire becomes entangled with capital, memory with representation, and identity with spectacle. Across shifting realities and dream-like landscapes, the programme traces the transformation of the self under contemporary image culture, revealing reality not as a fixed condition, but as a shared and continuously negotiated illusion.