DEBUNK curated by Amanda Houchen
PV 13 March / 6 - 8 PM
14 March - 07 April 2024
Terrace Gallery, London, England
Artists consider what is true or untrue, reality versus fiction, what is authentic. Can we trust in what is presented to us, or can we strip the image back and examine something in the light, facing things as they truly are? As artists we get to choose what we show and what we don't show, how true we are to our natural expression, or what we decide to conceal.
Carl Jung referred to the "shadow self", the things that people repress, or do not like to acknowledge, the primitive side of our nature - in contrast to the persona, the self that people present to others.
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious like, the blacker and denser it is".
Considering this contrast of appearance and deception, truth and viscerality - these artists play with masking and unmasking through the material process - facing what's uncomfortable, revealing truth in beauty. Or playfully inviting us to take a new perspective, through focusing on tricks of design and the power of the image itself, and questioning what lies behind the surface.
PV 13 March / 6 - 8 PM
14 March - 07 April 2024
Terrace Gallery, London, England
Artists consider what is true or untrue, reality versus fiction, what is authentic. Can we trust in what is presented to us, or can we strip the image back and examine something in the light, facing things as they truly are? As artists we get to choose what we show and what we don't show, how true we are to our natural expression, or what we decide to conceal.
Carl Jung referred to the "shadow self", the things that people repress, or do not like to acknowledge, the primitive side of our nature - in contrast to the persona, the self that people present to others.
"Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious like, the blacker and denser it is".
Considering this contrast of appearance and deception, truth and viscerality - these artists play with masking and unmasking through the material process - facing what's uncomfortable, revealing truth in beauty. Or playfully inviting us to take a new perspective, through focusing on tricks of design and the power of the image itself, and questioning what lies behind the surface.
PADA Winter Residency + Exhibition
09 - 29 January 2024
PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
www.padastudios.com
09 - 29 January 2024
PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal
www.padastudios.com