This exhibition in Saint Helier shows  how  Clara Rae the Australian artist that uses photography to explore ideas of performance and gesture to interrogate and subvert dominant modes of representation, responds to the older photographer Claude Cahun a Jewish-French photographer

This self portrait of Rae shows how she is in a very uncomfortable position, lying on a large stone with her back and head falling behind and her hips on the edge of the stone. this portrait makes the watcher questioning her position and the meaning of it.

This portrait shows how Rae is clinging her self between holes in what seems to be a building, she uses her body to show weird but unique positions that are very questionable.

Cahun uses different faces in a every portrait, in this photo she is representing a doll wearing a shirt saying “i’m still in training don’t kiss me” makes the viewer question what exactly does she mean.

Clare specifically came to jersey to respond to Claude’s questionable work, both Clare and Claude use black and white self portraits in their work. Claude has acquired cult status among artists dealing with issues of gender, identity and self-representation, she is very known for her radical self-portraits she produced, in collaboration with her female partner Marcel Moore.

The exhibition reflects a dialogue between two performative photographic practices created some 70 years apart. in two separate yet open rooms.