Currently researching the intersection between philosophical identifications of the self and art history, I am particularly interested in how our self-representation exists in relation to our conception of self. In what seems to be a cyclical and symbiotic relationship, our self-depictions serve to document our understanding of self, and at the same time deepen and inform those understandings.

Consider the “self” as an interface to reality. Through our experience of self, we interpret reality. Further to this, it is through our experience of everything that is not “our self” that allows us to define and understand the self. On the borders between what is and is not “us” exist our shadows and reflections. Shadows and reflections then, become an unoccupied space where we can play with our sense of self and our sense of reality.

The works in this exhibition explore these ideas of shadows and reflections by treating them as a place to situate experimental thoughts and feelings that may not be strictly ‘real’ but are still an important part of understanding what it means to be.

CATALOGUE