Paolo Predin, Nice to Read You, Your Face Will Be Enough, 2026

Nice to Read You, Your Face Will Be Enough is a portrait investigation into young adults’ relationship with digital identity, data mining, classification, and related surveillance systems.

How has the concept of identity and the idea of ‘persona’ blurred in the current social media landscape between the young-adults often referred to as generic post millennials or Gen Z? Today, the perception others have of us is the result of carefully filtered and edited feeds, crafted to present a curated version of how we want to be seen. In our hands, we hold an object that contains as well our financial information, eating habits, emotions, guilty pleasures, secrets, work details, health data but also our gossip and innermost thoughts. Everything is inside this rectangular stone. Pure self-design?