Pictures of Us brings together contemporary artists using photography and film to foreground tenderness and intimacy as the connective tissue within and across a range of communities.
Each artist explores ways in which selfhood is forged through relationships; these extend from familial, romantic and social connections to those that cross geographic and temporal boundaries. In sensitively portraying friends, lovers and family members, many of the works in Pictures of Us visualise the reciprocity between the individual and the collective. Photographic works by Lotte Andersen, Genesis Baez, Jess T. Dugan, Sabelo Mlangeni, Bernice Mulenga, Vivek Vadoliya, Alberta Whittle and Matthew Arthur Williams inhabit Gathering’s ground floor, while on the lower floor films by Alberta Whittle, Genesis Báez, Jess T. Dugan, Matthew Arthur Williams and Lotte Andersen are shown in an environment designed to embrace the viewer.