FACE AND IDENTITY, Art Center Silkeborg, Denmark, 2017

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Curated by Faye Dowling and Sergei Sviatchenko, the section ‘Dreams’ presents a photographic imagery from emerging artists combining photography and collage. In our self-reflective culture the photographic portrait has become ever more prevalent as a marker of our communication and understanding, of our-selves and each other.

Expanding from its historic traditions, today’s contemporary portrait has become less about the exterior appearance, than a window to the interior consciousness that lies beyond. Moving beyond surface representation, these artists use photographic portraiture to explore the modern representations of identity.

'Their multi-faceted portraits reveal a dreamscape of memories, fantasies, emotions and sensations, inviting the viewer to seek untold stories, and hold a mirror up to ourselves in our shape-shifting universe.

© Sergei Sviatchenko, 2022

© Sergei Sviatchenko, 2022