02. Content: Portraiture Exhibition Open Day
Presented by The Company You Keep
DETAILS
Free, no booking required
Level 1
15 Bedford Street, Collingwood VIC, Australia
DATES
Fri 22 May 10am – 5pm
From formal portrait to emoji, the face endures as one of culture’s most potent symbols. In a time when likeness can be monetised, replicated, or entirely fabricated, portraiture becomes both mirror and marketplace. The Company You Keep hosts an exhibition exploring the semiotics of portraiture and the way culture and visual communication shape each other. This is the second chapter of a research project by TCYK’s creative team, turning our focus to the self and how identity is perceived, performed, and reproduced through image-making. Through an exhibition and publication, TCYK observes and curates portraiture across the disciplines of photography, digital art, sculpture, and print to explore how the face has become a mutable interface for self-expression, culture, and technology. The exhibition will be open to the public for self-guided tours throughout the day.
Participants
The Company You Keep
The Company You Keep is a design practice working on commissioned and self-directed studies between luxury, hospitality and the arts. Grounded in the position that design renders meaning into experience, typologies err to the experiential, spanning strategy, brand, installation, print, placemaking and digital. Precedent is drawn outside of categorical standards to form work that is both novel and distinct. Fundamental to our practice is a curatorial approach; instep with artists, makers and creators, that places brands in direct conversation with culture.