Close Up
2003
The Serpentine Gallery worked with a group of young people from Albanian Youth Action to produce an exhibition of self-portraits inspired by the Serpentine’s Cindy Sherman and John Currin exhibitions.
Artist Farina Graham led the group, aged 14 to 17, in a programme of activities based at Albanian Youth Action’s centre. A series of practical workshops, group discussions and exhibition visits explored themes of identity, portraiture and representation. The group used digital photography to produce over 100 images each, from which they then each selected one final image to be printed large-scale and exhibited in The Sackler Centre of Arts Education at the Gallery.
The Private View was attended by the young people who took part and the wider Albanian community, the Albanian Ambassador and David Fitzgerald, Head of Art Education at the Department for Culture Media and Sport.
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With additional support from The Home Office Refugee Integration Unit
Digital images created by young people for Close Up, 2003
Digital images created by young people for Close Up, 2003
