![]() Research and scholarship are important, and it’s important for regional galleries to be part of that’.įACELESS: Transforming Identity is showing the Cairns Art Gallery until 2 October. She concluded: ‘We want to feel that we are making a contribution to scholarship. Find & Download the most popular Faceless Vectors on Freepik Free for commercial use High Quality Images Made for Creative Projects You can find & download the most popular Faceless Vectors on Freepik. Courtesy of the artist and Alcaston Gallery, Melbourne.Ĭhurcher said: ‘While being regionally located it is important to engage with the local specificities of place in which we live, I believe it is important to engage with shared international art conversations and to share our stories globally’. Shirley Macnamara Mourning for Loss, 2022. Oblong Contemporary Gallery in Dubai is proud to present Anna Chekh for her debut art exhibition, Faceless, in collaboration with Skaya Art Agency. While many of the artworks in the exhibition use the medium of photography, there are also videos, sculpture, performance-based works, and many object-based works that pick up on the idea of facelessness.įor example, Shirley Macnamara’s mourning caps – which are cultural objects worn on the head and screening the face from view – Fiona Foley’s installation of hoods Atonement Australia? (2022), or Janet Fieldhouse’s multi-media work from her I AM: Because of series (2022). It is not about the gaze it is about identity. This is a different take on portraiture, to rethink the whole idea of imaging the face and what that means. ‘It is subverting the traditional notion of portraiture– to extend the boundaries and challenge what we understand it to be.’ ‘I think the concept of portraiture in the Faceless exhibition is really interesting in the way that the face is being used differently to express identity and engage social, cultural and political conversations,’ she told ArtsHub. Several years in the development, the exhibition continues the Gallery’s program forefronting ideas shared by blak/black artists from around the world, starting with Continental Drift: blak/black art from South Africa and North Australia (2018), then Queen’s Land: Blak Portraiture (2019), and RITUAL: the past in the present brought together Australian Indigenous and Asian Pacific artists (2021).Ĭhurcher said the genesis of this exhibition stems back to that earlier Blak Portraiture exhibition. In this exhibition the artists use facial disguise in order to own their image and to explore ideas around identity. Across history, the few portraits of Indigenous people are how white people have wanted to see them. Gallery Director Andrea Churcher told ArtsHub: ‘The premise is about being seen as one wants to be seen, rather than the way other people want to see you.
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