Event overview
The ‘People Like You’ research project is proud to launch the series, Figure to Ground: Dialogic Portraits by the artist Felicity Allen. In her residency for the project, Allen produced a series of portraits, curated in the on-line exhibition Rooms, and a film, Figure to Ground – a site losing its system. Her work draws attention to the relations between figure and ground – persons and contexts or environments, but also to practices of representation, especially those associated with portraiture: to relations between liking and likeness; and the temporalities of painting as one among other media.
A sitter once said, seeing the portrait series that she was a part of, that she felt she’d joined a family of portraits because of the shared look of them.
Programme:
6.30 – 8pm BST
Introducing the project and the residency: Celia Lury
A commentary: Barry Schwabsky
Screening of Figure to Ground – a site losing its system
A walk through Rooms, Felicity Allen and Celia Lury
A discussion with two of the sitters for the dialogic portraits: Will Viney and Janice Cheddie
Q&A
peoplelikeyou.ac.uk/.../launch-of-figure-to-ground-dialogic-portraits-a-series-by-felicity-allen/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 28 Oct 2021 | 6:30pm - 8:00pm |
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