Opening Night: Fri 05 Jul, 17:00-19:00
Exhibition Open: 06-21Jul, Fri-Sun, 12:00-16:00
Closing Event: Sun 21 Jul, 16:00-18:00
About The Exhibition
This research exhibition ‘The Untamed Self Portrait’ seeks to challenge stereotypical visual representations of women as objects of eternal beauty, desire, vulnerability and so forth, through a process of visual rewilding. By deconstructing, distorting, and recreating the image through self-portraiture and collage, the aim is to question the context in which representations of women have been/is shaped and controlled by the patriarchal gaze.
By using self-portraiture and collage as unruly forms of expression, the exhibition seeks to explore and unpack how women are seen and how women’s self-image is influenced by the patriarchal gaze. Whose gaze is in control and who is being looked at? How can women make themselves fully present as subjects in a world that historically has regarded them as objects? And how can we create new narratives that foster more holistic and truthful representations of women outside patriarchal boundaries?
The Untamed Self Portrait is intended as a conversation space that questions and challenges patriarchal traditions and expectations that dictate how women have been and still are represented. During the duration of the exhibition the audience is invited to join the conversation by partaking in collage-making workshops that deconstruct and reconstruct historical and contemporary representations of women. The exhibition also includes a two-part self-portrait collage workshop that invites women to explore, question, and ‘rewild’ their own image. These workshop outcomes will be added to the existing exhibition to further expand the discussion around visual representations of women.
Two Part Workshop: Unruly Self Portraits
Sat 13 & Sat 20 Jul
16:00-17:30
Booking Required, Pay-What-You-Can, £10 Suggested Donation
Connect with the intuitive untamed and ‘rewild’ your own image through a process of visual deconstruction and recreation.
The first session invites you to take a few self-portrait photographs. These will then be used as a raw material during the second session to create a collage that reclaims agency of the subject in the image.
Find out more and book your place here.
About The Artist
Dr Henrica Langh is a transdisciplinary artist and researcher inspired by the magic of the ordinary and our delicate existence in this world. Her practice is highly process-led and serendipitous, and she works across different subject areas and mediums, such as textiles, photography, poetry, and installation. Rather than being solidified in finished outcomes, her practice forms an ongoing dialogue between ideas, feelings, and material experiments that grow and interweave like a garden. She holds an MA in Applied Imagination from Central Saint Martins and a PhD in practice-led research from the University for the Creative Arts.