Interfacial Intimacies

17 March to 15 June, 2025

Latrobe Regional Gallery, Galleries 4, 5 & 6

What does it mean to be the absolute essence of who you are without being wedded to any of it?

For a long time, the ‘self’ was considered a stable and trustworthy container within which you can be found. Emerging theories of selfhood recognise that it isn’t so simple. We know that we can have as many social selves as the people who recognise us. Rather than being fixed and always coherent, our personalities can be participated in as a plethora of parallel processes and possibilities. Of transformation. Of continuous becoming.

This exhibition brings together artists who hold and express tenderly the multiple aspects of their selves through a series of portraits and anti-portraits. With photography, film, painting, installation, textile, and performance, this exhibition explores the tensions of our networked personalities – our shadows, our masks, our shame. Yet, the artists retain their agency and their ‘right to opacity’, to resist being wholly understood, or essentialised; towards an openness of cultural hybridity, to being visible while not being wholly transparent. How will you show up today?

Artists: Bruno Booth, Amrita Hepi, Léuli Eshrāghi, Bhenji Ra, Aleks Danko, Cassie Sullivan, Georgia Morgan, Cigdem Aydemir, David Rosetzky, and Shea Kirk. Curated by Caine Chennatt.

Interfacial Intimacies is an exhibition developed by the Plimsoll Gallery and toured by Contemporary Art Tasmania.

The Plimsoll Gallery is supported by the University of Tasmania. Contemporary Art Tasmania is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding body, and by Arts Tasmania.

This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program and by the Contemporary Art Tasmania Exhibition Development Fund.