A House of Many Windows : Curated by Day + Gluckman

7 Mar-12 Jun 2013

Overview

The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us. As Robert Louis Stevenson so clearly articulates the desire we have as individuals to communicate with our fellow beings is a complex set of parameters and nuances. It is unsurprising that the use of the figure as subject remains a complex dilemma for an artist. The portrait, the mask, the ownership of identity, the burden of historical portraiture can all be mined from the depiction of a person. Often the figure is eradicated in contemporary art practice. Landscapes are barren, sculptures reject the hint of human intervention with pristine finishes, white cube galleries are a clinical platform. Immediately an emotive layer is added through the depiction of a person. Identity infects and affects works of art, how we read them and how they are produced. In this exhibition nine artists who particularly work with the body as subject through paint, sculpture, collage and photography present a myriad of responses to our relationship with ourselves.