This group exhibition brings together the work of three artists who in radically different ways engage with the ideas of persona, disguise, and symbolic action. Across photo gravure, xerox copies, painted copies of copies, and photography, the works forge a study of projections, concealment, and deception.

The influences of Jung and Erving Goffman are present in these works, as is Kenneth Burke’s notion of ‘terministic screens’. What each image captures or presents functions as a filter screen wherein an inherent play and dramaturgy are operative. In the case of these four works there is a charm and jest that threads their individual bases together.

Further reflection is invited under the notions of identity, gender, and power. Through the restaging and documentation of a piece by piece designed adaptation of the self, emphasis is put on Judith Butler’s concept of gender performativity. Gender is the category to be built and performed, thus the individual may adapt to societal expectations, or reject them entirely. Elsewhere the attention is directed towards behaviors that are reeled in and altered in exchange for conformation and security. Disguise is the obvious action to escape surveillance, shape power and guarantee Welfare and safety, or to upset the established order.