Breathing Bodies
29 January 2022 - 06 March 2022
Breathing Bodies
Narelle Delle Baite
Narelle Delle Baite, Untitled (detail), 2021, Digital photographic print.
Narelle Delle Baite’s Breathing Bodies is a collection of digital photographic portraits of women inspired to disturb modern myths surrounding the female identity. The exhibition does this through the proposition of alternative concepts of inherent beauty. The approach to the portraits reflects Delle Baite’s underlying concern with narrow and unrealistic physical female beauty ideals in contemporary visual culture used against women. The artist reflects on how this limits women's potential and results in adverse psychological and physical effects. As visual representations of female beauty are limited mainly to the physical, she seeks to make visible the invisible in her portraits. The artworks created in the studio illustrate the development of a new aesthetic through practice-led research centred on digital photographic practices, beauty, and feminist aesthetics.
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All Exhibitions29 January 2022 -
06 March 2022
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Acknowledgements
Umbrella is supported by the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland, part of the Department of Communities, Housing and Digital Economy, and by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy, an initiative of the Australian, state and territory governments. | Umbrella is supported by the Tim Fairfax Family Foundation and receives funding from Creative Australia through the Australian Cultural Fund. | Townsville City Council is a funding partner of Umbrella's program.
