Selfies: Renu Mathew, First Friday January 6, 2017
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Kiwanis Gallery at Red Deer Public Library 4818 49 Street (lower level), Red Deer, Alberta T4N 1T9
Red Deer Arts Council and Red Deer Public Library are pleased to present Selfies: Mixed Media by Renu Mathew which runs in the Kiwanis Gallery from December 29, 2016 to February 19, 2017.
Our First Friday Red Deer is January 6 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm. Refreshments served. The artist will be in attendance.
Enter the digital age where it has become increasing popular to snap a 'selfie' of yourself and post it to a social media site. Our sense of privacy is changing and more of our lives are open to others. In her exhibit of mixed media work, paintings and figurative sculptures, Olds artist Renu Mathew presents the images that individuals have chosen to publicly portray of themselves, taken from Facebook, Twitter and the public domain of friends and acquaintances.
Renu has taken a look at "selfies" from another perspective. The artworks reflect her ideas of how people want others to see them 'in the moment' and how fleeting we think these images are. But the images have more permanency than we realize, and may have longer-term effects than we intend.
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