Faciality

About the exhibition
A group exhibition that went beyond traditional portraiture, the works in this exhibition were presented by curator Zara Stanhope as ‘a response to Deleuze and Guattari’s concept of faciality, to consider how the face in art might be investigated and communicated in light of cultural and philosophical theory’. This thinking and framework encompassed works such as Lindy Lee’s Translucent and silent 1993, using the photocopy to deny permanence or singularity of the image, Peter Kennedy’s drawing Conflated portraits (Lenin & Mao yield to memory and forgetting) 1992/94, and Gordon Bennett’s Self-Portrait 1994, in which the artist peels away a pale skin-like mask in a series of eight photographs.

Acknowledgements
This exhibition received assistance from Arts Victoria and the Australia Council through NETS Victoria.

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^{Image: Fiona MacDonald, Mob No. 3 1993, sepia-toned photograph collage, 50 x 40 cm, signed and dated on reverse. Private collection, Melbourne. Photo: Richard Crompton and artists}