At the heart of UNDEREXPOSED ARTS, we underpin the delivery of our artistic interventions with an applied rigor of critical thinking and exploration that fuels our ethos. We investigate the connectivity around issues of shared identities, and in unpacking amplify a culturally coherent engagement. We challenge under-representation on a platform that
re-presents opportunity.
WUNMI MOSAKU
WIL JOHNSON
In order to aspire we have to honour. Looking at the visual language used to do so is crucial in evolving, not just in the decisive moment, but the decisive action, grounded in an authenticity of dialect.
At UA, through the representation of the photographic portrait and gems of knowledge, we pay tribute in concept, narrative, process and placement. This seminal body of work flourishes not only in the beauty of what they are as images of change, but in what they do in their capacity to engage in connecting content, context through to continuum. This approach constitutes a progressive frame of reference that is inclusive and not exclusive.
TREVA ETIENNE
MARTINA LAIRD
RUDOLF WALKER
MARIANNE JEAN-BAPTISTE
KWAME KWEI-ARMAH
The Portraits in the gallery alludes to a hybrid re-imagining, using the strength of light made manifest and metaphor, to allude to African facial markings, which denote rites of passage and status, paying homage to a shift in thinking outside of the eurocentric vernacular aesthetic in which the medium is often grounded.
Developing the inspired approach ‘Their story can shape our story’ the portraits in their essence become symbolic in the idea of activating the potential of possibility in the generation they influence.
LENNIE JAMES
MARSHA THOMASON