Daily Archives: October 22, 2017

Video Encounters: Inside the Story | Rachel MacLean and Bedwyr Williams at Golden Thread Gallery   Recently updated !

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5 October to 18 November 2017

Why not come and have your senses rearranged courtesy of The Lion and The Unicorn by Rachel Maclean and The Starry Messenger by Bedwyr Williams, presented side-by-side in the North of Ireland for the first time! Inside the Story is a welcome alternative to the big binary ideas that have dominated the political landscape for the past two years. Anything could happen when Rachel meets Bedwyr in this fabulous collision of glitter, make-believe and dark wit.

The Golden Thread Gallery is delighted to launch its Video Encounters exhibition series with these two remarkable artists and their works of wonder. The Video Encounters series of exhibitions will create opportunities to engage with and delve into works of international acclaim and to encourage the imagining of conservations between each other.

Video Encounters: Inside the Story explores the re-imagining of identity and social structures, through divergent approaches to context and narrative. Both works feature the artist in the lead role/s and in front of the camera.

The Golden Thread Gallery would like to acknowledge the generous support of the British Council Collection, who loaned both works in the exhibition.

Golden Thread Gallery, 84-94 Great Patrick St, Belfast BT1 2LU
T: +44 28 9033 0920
E: info@gtgallery.co.uk
W: goldenthreadgallery.co.uk

Catharsis | Group Exhibition at Belfast Exposed, Belfast   Recently updated !

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27 October to 23 December 2017

Exhibition Preview: Thursday 26 October 6-8.30pm

Belfast Exposed presents Catharsis – a new group exhibition which brings together three projects by contemporary photographers who use portraiture in innovative ways to explore and come to terms with complex family or personal histories. Employing different strategies, each artist uses photography as a means to unravel or respond to a repressed narrative around personal identity. Through the process of creative investigation they open a broader dialogue around the constraints that societal norms can impose upon the freedom of individual expression.

Amak Mahmoodian is an Iranian photographer, born the year after the revolution in 1979. She uses the official portraits taken for the Iranian birth certificate – the Shenasmenah – to question the representation of women in her home country. A Shenasmenah is valid for life, but the photograph must be updated in keeping with standards imposed by the government. For a woman, the taking of this photograph is a personally charged affair – her hair must be covered, and her face free of excessive make-up. If the woman’s appearance is not deemed officially ‘correct’, the photograph will be rejected.

By collecting and creating an archive of Shenasmenah portraits and fingerprints, and by taking the time to get to know each of her subjects, Mahmoodian seeks to draw attention to the individual personalities of the women behind their public-facing image.

Through her project, Ken. To Be Destroyed, Sara Davidmann also explores the tensions between an ‘acceptable’ public-facing image and a private personal identity. Sara Davidmann and her siblings inherited an arch.

Belfast Exposed Photography
The Exchange Place, 23 Donegall Street, Belfast
T: +44 (0)28 9023 0965
E: info@belfastexposed.org
W: belfastexposed.org