“The Vanishing Portrait” Solo Exhibition
July 11 – August 3, 2019
Reception: Saturday, July 13, 6-9 pm
Artwalk preview: Thursday July 11, 7-9 pm
https://vanishingportrait.com/
The Vanishing Portrait exhibition is a new body of work that explores the discrimination in technology. The work comments on a specific bias in today’s social media and other online platforms. Furthermore, these racist technologies can have severe outcomes on female minorities. For example, what happens to the future generation of women who see pornographic material when they search for themselves through Google (“Asian Girls”)? Or how Instagram has over fifteen filters but yet, most of them lighten the skin. By continuing the history of whitewashing portraiture, society as a collective, are continuing the history of discrimination. Part of the issue is there should be more diversity of people working in the tech sector but the problem goes much deeper. Social media reflects the public consciousness. We must as a collective, understand how images, tags, and interactions online can emotionally impact a person.
This exhibition will show digital prints and documentation from a current exhibition of work at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art.