WHAT A FEELING! | ACT I
at Edinburgh Printmakers. This unique presentation of screenprints is the first part of an exploration project discussing the topics of racial identity, inequality, care and love through the Black Feminine Lens. Working across three different mediums: moving from printmaking to video, from video to performance, Charles explores the rhythms, movement, and the body language of women of colour.
For this solo exhibition, this new body of work: a series of portraits that portray the Act of getting ready. Highlighting a cohort of Black Women creatives in the Scottish Art Scene, exemplifying self-care. The Portraits are explored and conveyed as gestures of being judged, analyzed, and satisfied within a format of salon. The idea of being cared for and treated. Developing these gestural portraits allows the viewer to witness how these gestures trigger the tension within the space, an encounter, and a conversation on the concept of support and care.
Exhibition Documentation by Alan Dimmick
The two part project examines how we judge as a result of people’s body language. For ACT I of WHAT A FEELING! Charles is trying to understand the act of getting ready and preparing ourselves for what's to come. A Salon, which Charles considers a space of escape, support, and will be driven from 1-2-1 conversations with Black Creatives as jumping off points; WHAT A FEELING! explores the experience of how they have been judged within arts institutions and interrogate the concept of working twice as hard to get half as far.
BEHIND THE SCENES | TRANSCRIPT