This study seeks to elucidate the reasons why the issue of privacy becomes an object of artistic endeavor. For this purpose, the concept of privacy is considered from various aspects and the position of privacy vis-à-vis the Individual (the Self) and the Other is investigated. For the Other, the Individual’s privacy is an unknown domain and thus privacy is a divisive issue between the Individual and the Other. The notion that interpersonal privacy boundaries are sensed the most emphatically in social life and that they undergo a transformation in the domain of art provides the framework for a consideration of contemporary artistic praxes. Answers are sought to the question of “What am I?” in terms of the concepts of “existence” and “privacy” while the position of “the Other” in the creation of “the Self” is investigated. The impact of the external world on the individual and the associated emergent need of the individual for privacy are detailed. The reasons why artists make their own image a subject of art are examined by looking at works of art in the context of privacy. Examples are provided of works in which artists decrypt their own privacy or expose the privacy of the Other. Based on the findings of this examination, the conclusion is reached that artistic production is a domain that imparts flexibility to the perpetually “invisible/unknowable” boundary of privacy in communication between the Individual and the Other.

Keywords: Individual, Other, Privacy, Art