Out of Sight: Picturing the Unseen
Parallel Platform
English
Curated by Lexington Davis.
Softcover
Edition of 600
68 pages
187 x 270 mm
2019
ISBN 9789895420629
Visual media possesses a powerful ability to create subjects and define norms, a fact recognised by many lens-based artists working in cultural climates where conversations about representation and identity have become central to public discourse. The exhibition Out of Sight: Picturing the Unseen highlighted new work by four emerging interdisciplinary artists who question and explore the fraught relationship between visibility and the construction of “Otherness.” They approach the unseen as a process—an “unseeing”—in which certain groups of people are systematically erased, silenced, sidelined, and recreated according to the needs of a dominant culture. They ask who remains unseen, particularly in the West, and how privilege directly influences one’s access to tools of self-representation.
Artists included in the exhibition are Chad Caner, Róisín White, Sinead Kennedy and Agata Wieczorek.
(source: http://fotofestiwal.com/2020/en/exhibitions/some-bodies/)
About the Organisation
Parallel Platform is a platform that brings together creative European organisations committed to promoting cross-cultural exchanges and mentorships in order to set new standards in contemporary photography. Members include museums, galleries, cultural centres, festivals, art schools and publishers – 18 vibrant European cultural hubs, from 16 countries, that will participate in selecting and hosting emerging artists and curators, organising exhibitions and promoting artistic networking.
parallelplatform.org
(source: https://parallelplatform.org/curators/about/)
