Interfacial Intimacies
What does it mean to be the absolute essence of who you are without being wedded to any of it?
For a long time, the 鈥榮elf鈥� was considered a stable and trustworthy container within which you can be found. Emerging theories of selfhood recognise that it isn鈥檛 so simple. We know that we can have as many social selves as the people who recognise us. Rather than being fixed and always coherent, our personalities can be participated in as a plethora of parallel processes and possibilities. Of transformation. Of continuous becoming.
This exhibition brings together artists who hold and express tenderly the multiple aspects of their selves through a series of portraits and anti-portraits. With photography, film, painting, installation, textile, and performance, this exhibition explores the tensions of our networked personalities 鈥� our shadows, our masks, our shame. Yet, the artists retain their agency and their 鈥榬ight to opacity鈥�, to resist being wholly understood, or essentialised; towards an openness of cultural hybridity, to being visible while not being wholly transparent. How will you show up today?
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What does it mean to be the absolute essence of who you are without being wedded to any of it?
For a long time, the 鈥榮elf鈥� was considered a stable and trustworthy container within which you can be found. Emerging theories of selfhood recognise that it isn鈥檛 so simple. We know that we can have as many social selves as the people who recognise us. Rather than being fixed and always coherent, our personalities can be participated in as a plethora of parallel processes and possibilities. Of transformation. Of continuous becoming.
This exhibition brings together artists who hold and express tenderly the multiple aspects of their selves through a series of portraits and anti-portraits. With photography, film, painting, installation, textile, and performance, this exhibition explores the tensions of our networked personalities 鈥� our shadows, our masks, our shame. Yet, the artists retain their agency and their 鈥榬ight to opacity鈥�, to resist being wholly understood, or essentialised; towards an openness of cultural hybridity, to being visible while not being wholly transparent. How will you show up today?
