Centre for
Contemporary
Photography
Current exhibition:
‘Auto-Photo: A Life in Portraits’, June 5 – Aug 16, 2025
RMIT Gallery, 344 Swanston St, Melbourne
In Figuratively Speaking, seven artists explore themes of the body as a medium for language across lens-based media. Looking at form and gesture, the body as a tool for expression, and the historical relation between performance and the camera, the exhibition investigates the ways in which contemporary artists draw on the body as a linguistic and legible device. Whether as archival document, a call to action, a tool for translation, or as a mode of language itself, Figuratively Speaking considers how our bodies communicate without words.
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