SELF PORTRAIT

IN-DEVELOPMENT

So what happens when your DNA rises to the top?

SYNOPSIS

Migration stories are often told by the first person but what happens decades or even centuries later? Each of us contains multitudes of layers from life’s experience passed down. This universal story celebrates the existence of multiple cultural affinities in the single self, and for embracing complexity within the contemporary world.

Inside the world of an art gallery, Annalouise will create a ‘live portrait’. Sharing her past, present and imagined lives to contemplate multiple identities. Self-portraiture becomes a metaphor for contextualising how we perceive or project onto others. The audience is asked to gaze, question and be complicit as the artist presents multiple conflicting selves - to be resolved in the one body; in this bold, intelligent and poetic telling of one person’s path to self-sovereignty.