Portraits of Our Lives
Oct 1 - Nov 8, 2009Gana Art Center
Our communication is divided into lingual and non-lingual forms. While lingual communication is a more expressive and direct measure, the non-lingual one is more comprehensive and serves in expanding or reducing the impact of lingual communication.
In this exhibition, we will examine art works that portray facial expressions and body gestures, which are the most important non-lingual communication tools, and will search how they embody 'communication beyond the words.' In order to show how we express ourselves beyond words and how this is embraced in art works, we exhibit creators' facial expressions, the 'faces' of society that creators captured, and the bodies that incorporate human expressions.
-Channel 1:
From artists' portraits (or self-portraits), we examine how the artists' ideas are reflected to the materialized art works. Moreover, we search the a whole aspect which life takes as the meaning of human expression
-Channel 2:
Facial expressions embody larger meanings than words, and we discover how different sides of our daily lives are secretly reflected in our facial expressions
-Channel 3:
Human expressions stretch to body and mirror our lives, just as our faces do. From a perspective that bodily or physical expression is an extension of facial expression, we search the meaning behind of our gestures