Artists: Cigdem Aydemir, Bruno Booth, Aleks Danko, Léuli Eshrāghi, Amrita Hepi, Shea Kirk, Georgia Morgan, Bhenji Ra, David Rosetzky and Cassie Sullivan
Curator: Caine Chennatt
What does it mean to be the absolute essence of who you are without being wedded to any of it?
For a long time, the ‘self’ was considered a stable and trustworthy container within which you can be found. Emerging theories of selfhood recognise that it isn’t so simple. We know that we can have as many social selves as the people who recognise us. Rather than being fixed and always coherent, our personalities can be participated in as a plethora of parallel processes and possibilities. Of transformation. Of continuous becoming.
This exhibition brings together artists who hold and express tenderly the multiple aspects of their selves through a series of portraits and anti-portraits. Through photography, film, installation, textile, and performance, this exhibition explores the tensions of our networked personalities – our shadows, our masks, our shame.
Yet, the artists retain their agency and their ‘right to opacity’, to resist being wholly understood, or essentialised; towards an openness of cultural hybridity, to being visible while not being wholly transparent.
How will you show up today?
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Exhibition opening event
Friday 13 March 2026
5:30pm tour of the exhibition with curator Caine Chennatt and artist Cigdem Aydemir
6pm opening event with Welcome to Country by Djiriganj elder Aunty Glenda Dixon and speech by Mayor Russell Fitzpatrick
Free event and exhibition. Booking encouraged (click here).
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Education Kit
Published by the University of Tasmania, an education kit has been developed to support learning alongside the exhibition Interfacial Intimacies touring exhibition. Teachers of both primary and secondary students can select and adapt the questions and support materials provided for learning experiences in the gallery or classroom.
Click here to download the education kit.
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Interfacial Intimacies is an exhibition curated by Caine Chennatt, developed by the Plimsoll Gallery and toured by Contemporary Art Tasmania.
The Plimsoll Gallery is supported by the University of Tasmania. Contemporary Art Tasmania is supported by the Australian Government through Creative Australia, its principal arts funding body, by the Visual Arts and Craft Strategy and is assisted through Arts Tasmania by the Minister for the Arts.
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government’s Visions of Australia program and by the Contemporary Art Tasmania Exhibition Development Fund.
