The Gaze & The Self

This project, Faces from the South — Between the Gaze and the Self, is a praxis-based inquiry. It explores the encounter between six historical photographic portraits (circa early 20th century) and six contemporary paintings, spanning roughly a century of visual representation from and of the region known today as the Republic of South Sudan.

Rather than offering a corrective or comparative analysis, the work dwells in the space between archive and art, colonial gaze and self-representation. The curator articulates a position of patient, double-looking; inviting viewers to resist resolution and instead experience looking twice.”

Together, the textual statement and image pairings, constitute a praxis work: theory made visible through curatorial and digital choices.