Where Your Gaze Meets Mine

Where Your Gaze Meets Mine is a collaborative project where women are empowered to become authors in the image-making process, creating co-authored  portraits that address the patriarchal gaze of the past by sharing experiences and authentically representing their bodies and identities.

As an analogue form of post-production, the application of white paint, using a combination of brush strokes, a roller brush, and corrective fluid, is both an addition and a removal — simultaneously obscuring parts of the body while adding a painterly sensibility. The technique connects to the tradition of painted portraiture, particularly Renaissance nudes, where problematic representations of feminine bodies as sexualized objects flourished and solidified, with cultural and artistic reverberations still felt today.

The portraits are printed onto transparent fabric and stacked in threes, transforming the flat images into something more. As subtle movements in the air shift the portraits, they come to life for a moment, then flatten again, constantly in flux, hinting at the limits of portraiture to capture these complex, living bodies.

The project has multiple outcomes: a fabric installation and audio piece, a publication, and a short moving image piece. There’s still much work to do. This is merely the beginning of an ongoing project, and it’s glaringly incomplete without the inclusion of women and femmes of all ages, ethnicities, abilities, orientations, and genders (particularly trans femmes).

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