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Sharlene Khan Press Release |
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What I look like, what I feel like is an exhibition of photographic mixed
media works which feature staged photographic portraits of the artist in
various settings and guises, which seek to question how she feels others view
her against how she views herself. Each
artwork juxtaposes two images of the artist and questions portrayals of self
and otherness within the contemporary urban environment thereby implicating her
race, class, gender, education, religion and sexuality. This conscious exploration of her identity
examines the various masks one dons, consciously or sub-consciously on a daily
basis as well as the stereotypical representations inflicted on a person
inhabiting a racialised body in a specific socio-political and historical
situation.
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