What Are You Looking At?
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What Are You Looking At? Is there something on my face? Body dysmorphia forces us to view ourselves differently than we view each other, differently than reality. Every flaw that strays from perfection is put under a magnifying glass and distorted to feed into our worst deprications. These large portraits forcibly depict this, exaggerating self-proclaimed ‘undesirable’ features as we stare at each other wondering what the other person is really seeing. My overt familiarity of my own face distorts reality, revealing my innermost thoughts of how I feel perceived. This dynamic of looking at one another and not truly looking at the other, just thinking about what we look like to the other person. Can they see how tired I look, and every discoloration in my skin? 'What Are You Looking At?' is a magnified display of intimacy, our faces that look inward at our psyche and question our relationship with the self and the other.
Where it's been: Face Value, Ada Slaight Gallery, OCAD U, Toronto, ON Opening Reception April 4th, 2024 On view from April 1st-8th, 2024
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Nadine Alexeev is a Russian/Ukrainian contemporary painter and textiles artist based in Toronto. She is a first generation Canadian whose parents grew up in the USSR. As a result of this displacement and loss of ethnic identity, her work aims to connect to the physical body as the homeplace. She , ... View full profile
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