Space/Sight/Self
November 19, 1998 – January 10, 1999
This exhibition addressed contemporary portraiture as the nexus of three issues: visuality, location, and identity.
It was the culmination of a University of Chicago interdisciplinary course in art, art history and gender studies that investigated the practices, paradigms and aesthetics of contemporary portraiture. The course also explored the role of seeing in knowledge production, identity formation and visual education.
Space/Sight/Self was the collaborative result of students’ research and thinking about these issues. It featured artists Lynn Barlow, Dawoud Bey, Brett Bloom, Alice Hargrave, Jurgen Mayer Hermann, Byron Kim, Nina Levitt, Ana Mendieta, Holly Rittenhouse, Inez van Lamsweerde and Francesca Woodman.