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Images, clockwise from left: (1) Untitled Actions (art collection offsite store), 2024, Clare Rae. Photo Sarah Walker. (2, inset) Untitled Self Portrait (After Weston) from Slippage series, 2018, Pia Johnson. (3) Burnt, 2019, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis. (4) Untitled Actions (art collection offsite store), 2024, Clare Rae. (5) Refusal / Futurity exhibition, (foreground) Sold Out, 5-channel video, Eddie Abd, (background) self-portraiture by Jody Haines, photo Sarah Walker. 


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10 MAY—11 JUL What does it mean to be seen? How do we uncover what the image is trying to tell us? And how do we reclaim the image from the mediated world?

Ocular explores the complexities of visual culture, interrogating how images shape our understanding of the world and our roles within it. The act of seeing and being seen is inherently tied to power dynamics, with certain groups historically controlling both the lens and the subject in focus.

The program’s exhibition, Refusal / Futurity, presents contemporary women's self-portraiture and how lens-based media is used as a tool and mechanism to subvert the colonial, western and patriarchal gaze. Curated by Jody Haines, Refusal / Futurity is accompanied by a public program of workshops, artist talks, and a special edition podcast episode with Out of the Frame, with Pia Johnson.

Featuring artists: Eddie Abd, Hayley Millar Baker, Amy Carkeek, Pia Johnson, Clare Rae, Jahkarli Felicitas Romanis, Jody Haines (C)

  1. Refusal / Futurity
  2. Opening celebrations
  3. Out of The Frame Podcast
  4. Self-portrait workshop
  5. Field Trip: Deep Listening and Making
  6. Texture of Absence
  7. Gyroscopic Dance & Sound Workshop



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Platform Arts
On Wadawurrung Country
60 Little Malop St 
Djilang/Geelong VIC 3220
P: (03) 5224 2815 
M: 0467 094 597
E: hello@platformarts.org.au

Open
Office hours: Tuesday to Friday / 9.30AM—4.30PM
Gallery hours: Tuesday to Saturday / 10.00AM—4.00PM
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Platform Arts’ accessibility includes a ramp to our Gheringhap St entrance, wheelchair-accessible bathrooms, baby-change facilities, and elevator. Accessible carparks are located on the Little Malop St side of our building. If you have specific accessibility needs, please contact us. About
Platform Arts, based on Wadawurrung Country in Djilang/Geelong, focuses on the development of artistic practice and ideas, leading to the presentation of these ideas as contemporary arts experiences. We curate a multi-artform program of exhibitions, performances, publications and events that respond to themes and provocations we believe are urgent for our times. Learn more

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