The Look

Katherine Allen / Jennifer Caroline Campbell / Xingxin Hu /
Alison Jones / Cathy Lomax / Janet Sainsbury / Jacqueline Utley

19 – 27 October 2024, Friday to Sunday, 12-6pm
Opening event: Friday 18 October, 6-8pm

Talk by curator Cathy Lomax: Saturday 26 October, 2pm

SPACE Pop-up, 129 Mare Street, London E8 3RH

Cathy Lomax, The Look (St Lucy), 2023, oil on cotton bedsheet, 30 x 65 cm

The Look is a painting show that examines looking and being looked at.

Standing in opposition to John Berger’s 1970s term ‘the gaze’ which describes how women are presented to be viewed as passive objects in advertising and European art. Eschewing too ‘the male gaze’ used by film theorist Laura Mulvey’s as a critique of traditional representations of women in cinema. Our Look is altogether more ambiguous. It represents an active presentation and appraisal of appearance, a purposeful re-becoming strategized through taking control, accumulating knowledge, sourcing, scheming and daydreaming.

A fresh look at looking.