Exhibition: Haleh Jamali - Pose
Haleh Jamali - Pose
06 Aug – 04 Sept 2011
Preview: Friday 05 August | 6.30 - 9.30
Jamali has a fascination with all varieties of materials and has extended her artistic talent to painting, photography and video-making. She looks at the hidden layers beneath the visible, using the media of painting and installation.
Jamali’s interest in portraiture and narrative stems from her desire to address the social aspects of representation, particularly as it relates to the female gender. Jamali states:
“For me, the diversity, versatility, and unrivalled ability of portraits to communicate, make them an enigma. Indeed, my particular concern is to reveal the paradoxes and ambiguities behind the eyes of the portrait subject who tries to communicate emotions, arrest attention, and often express feelings of both attraction and repulsion”.
Encouraging an intimate relationship between the viewer and the subject, Jamali considers how an individual’s identity can be constructed in relation to others, while simultaneously suggesting that the self and the other are inseparable.
