Seeing Other People
April 26 – June 9, 2018
Jess T. Dugan, Genieve Figgis, Ayana V. Jackson, Joe Jones, Yvonne Osei, Catalina Ouyang, Katherine Simóne Reynolds, Aïda Ruilova, Cindy Sherman, Bert Stern, Mickalene Thomas, Krista Valdez, Édouard Vuillard and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye.
Curated by Jessica Baran
"The act of representing others almost always involves violence to the subject of representation.” Edward Said, In the Shadow of the West
“The self is a text — it has to be deciphered … The self is a project, something to be built.” - Susan Sontag, Under the Sign of Saturn
Seeing Other People considers the rhetoric of the constructed self as it is shaped by the act of gazing or being gazed upon. By pairing three historical paintings of women by men with contemporary portraits of women predominantly by women, the exhibit takes as its point of departure the notion that both reading and authoring representational images is a form of feminist resistance while also questioning the very construct of binary gender.
The show included a reading and listening room for the public to engage, composed of books and vinyl LP’s that speak to the theme of female self-representation.