MAPh | MAKE UP: painted faces in contemporary photography

EXHIBITION

MAKE UP: painted faces in contemporary photography

3 May – 30 June 2013

Darren SYLVESTER
#3 from the series What Happens Will Happen 2010
chromogenic print
120.0 x 90.0 cm
reproduction courtesy of the artist and Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney

The face-painted portrait has become a prominent feature of contemporary Australian photography. In photographs by Eric BRIDGEMAN, Bindi COLE, Ray COOK, Sandy EDWARDS, Siri HAYES, Owen LEONG, Darren SYLVESTER, Nat THOMAS & Concettina INSERRA, Christian THOMPSON and Justene WILLIAMS, people conceal and reveal themselves with face paint. In this survey of often very moving contemporary portraits, photography and identity are both cast as provisional and uncertain.

MAPh acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land, the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong People, and recognises their continuing connection to the land and waterways.

We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging and extend this to all Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People.

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