Shironuri: Transforming a Single Face Opening Reception
Date: Thursday, April 12, 2018
Time: 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Website: http://resobox.com/exhibition/shironuri-transforming-a-single-face/
Exhibition Overview
Katherine Radcliffe, a professional artist, was inspired to collaborate with Helen Moss during a time when Helen was studying classical Japanese dance. Katherine, fascinated by how completely shironuri (traditional stage makeup) transforms a face, asked Helen to model for photographs so that Katherine could capture the dramatic changes as they were happening.
Not content to simply document standard, more familiar character changes, Katherine posed Helen in compositions varying from meditative, reverse image kaleidoscopic manipulations, multiple faces of the same pose in different sizes, with a focus on the flexibility of gender roles unique to classical Japanese dance.
