Interfacial Intimacies
South East Centre for Contemporary Art (SECCA)
Sat 14 Mar '26 – Sat 23 May '26
Overview
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 self was understood as a stable and reliable container within which a person could be located. Emerging theories of selfhood suggest that this understanding is overly simplistic. It is now recognised that individuals may possess as many social selves as there are people who recognise them. Rather than being fixed or consistently…
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 self was understood as a stable and reliable container within which a person could be located. Emerging theories of selfhood suggest that this understanding is overly simplistic. It is now recognised that individuals may possess as many social selves as there are people who recognise them. Rather than being fixed or consistently coherent, personality can be understood as a constellation of parallel processes and possibilities—of transformation, and 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. Through photography, film, installation, textile, and performance, this exhibition explores the tensions of our networked personalities – our shadows, our masks, our shame.
Yet, the artists retain their agency and their 'right to opacity', to resist being wholly understood, or essentialised; towards an openness of cultural hybridity, to being visible while not being wholly transparent.
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Artists: Cigdem Aydemir, Bruno Booth, Aleks Danko, Léuli Eshrāghi, Amrita Hepi, Shea Kirk, Georgia Morgan, Bhenji Ra, David Rosetzky and Cassie Sullivan.
Curator: Caine Chennatt.
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