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EXHIBITION
CLAUDE CAHUN:
BENEATH THIS MASK
Monday 15 January − Saturday 17 March 2018
KEELE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY,
CHANCELLOR’S BUILDING
This Hayward Touring exhibition features the work of French female
photographer Claude Cahun (1894–1954), whose practice investigates
gender and identity. Cahun achieved posthumous fame for her elusive
self-portraits in which she assumed multiple personae. The exhibition
contains 42 contemporary giclee prints made from scans of Cahun’s
original photographic self-portraits, as the majority of the negatives
have been lost.
Born Lucy Schwob, she adopted the pseudonym in 1917 to free herself
from the narrow confines of gender. At the beginning of her career she
was aligned to the Surrealist movement and was friends with André
Breton; however she distanced herself both politically and physically
after fleeing France on the eve of Nazi occupation.
Cahun settled in Jersey where she embarked upon her defining
photographic series, in which the subversion of traditional portraiture
and the constructed nature of identity and gender are pressing
concerns. In these now famous images, Cahun anticipated the
performative work of contemporary artists such as Cindy Sherman.
This Hayward Touring exhibition is in collaboration with Jersey Heritage
and was first presented at the WOW – Women of the World Festival
2015, Southbank Centre.
A Hayward Touring Exhibition
from the Southbank Centre, London
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EXHIBITION
Claude Cahun,
Self Portrait, 1928
Courtesy and copyright Jersey Heritage
FREE
FREE
CURATING DEVELOPMENT
Wednesday 25 April − Wednesday 6 June 2018
KEELE UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Curating Development is an exhibition of art by Filipino migrant workers
in London and Hong Kong. Community members collaborated with NGOs
(Non-governmental organisations), artists and researchers to make artworks
exploring migrants’ contributions to national development in the Philippines
and their own welfare while working abroad.
This exhibition is part of the AHRC Global Research Challenges project,
Curating Development: Filipino migrants’ investment in Philippine futures.
EXHIBITION PREVIEW: TUESDAY 24 APRIL
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