Waterside in Sale, Trafford and HOME, in Manchester are proud to present She Appeared to Vanish, a new exhibition curated by Mario Popham, curator at Waterside.
She Appeared to Vanish showcases work by international artists who question historical depictions of women in photography using strategies that disrupt, frustrate and challenge the camera’s unblinking gaze; a gaze historically associated with an objectifying male perspective.
The artists appearing in the exhibition are Céline Bodin, Delphine Diallo, Sarah Eyre, Eva Stenram and Pinar Yolaçan.
Mario Popham said: “This group exhibition reaches beyond purely photographic methods, drawing on wider traditions of painting, sculpture, surrealist collage and performance. The work in the exhibition asks the viewer, to consider the act of viewing the female form and its historical and contemporary implications.
“The exhibition makes a virtue of difference with the work cutting across cultural and continental boundaries and traditions. And yet, for their diversity, an uncanny sense of mystery and tension permeates through all the work, each operating in the charged space between absence and presence; disguise and disclosure.”
Through her photographs, French photographer Céline Bodin investigates the notions of gender and identity within Western culture. Her photographs interrogate the representation of women across time and explores the womanhood as a construction built in response to historical, societal and cultural pressures.
Delphine Diallo is a French-Senegalese photographer living and working in New York, USA. Best known for her exploration of radiant and interactive surfaces and her innovative technique of painting, Diallo explores evolving themes of femininity through the captured emotions of her subjects, in return telling their powerful stories.
Sarah Eyre is a visual artist based in the north of England who uses photomontage and photomontage based animated GIFs to explore the way that we (women, but not exclusively women) participate in the ongoing labour of maintaining and controlling our bodily surfaces.
Swedish photographer Eva Stenram’s photographic practice brings together analogue archival material and digital manipulation. Sifting through past and present artefacts, she re-interprets and interacts with the imagery she encounters. Her work is ultimately about being a viewer, a consumer of images.
Pinar Yolaçan, from Turkey, creates bewitching photographic portraits of the female figure that dissolve traditional boundaries between photography, sculpture and painting and grapple with issues of beauty, femininity, fashion, cultural heritage and art history.
Fri 10 Sep – Sun 07 Nov ‘21
HOME, First Street, Manchester
Free | homemcr.org
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Fri 17 Sep – Sat 06 Nov ‘21
Waterside, Sale, M33 7ZF
Free | watersidearts.org
