The Face of the Other

The zine is an extended catalogue for the exhibition The Face of the Other by the Socially Engaged Art Salon (Brighton UK). The exhibition starts with an invitation - an invitation to face an Other without seeing. To welcome an Other without knowing. Because the face of the Other always hides. It is a mask that conceals the irreducible difference or Otherness. This mask, with neither an invitation nor with intention, shelters us from infinite alterity. As such, the face of the Other is invariably related to hospitality and to inclusion that in fact derives from radical Otherness.

The works in this publication, including photography, drawings, graphic design and video, present two different approaches to the issue of visibility: one that uses visibility to make one's identity or certain issues visible, to amplify voices and as a tool of protest. Other works, sometimes even for the same ends, use masquerade, concealment and defacement or do away entirely with the visual and use audio and texts. These works highlight social and political issues and yet others question the politics of visibility itself.

Curator: Gil Mualem-Doron

Desgin: Paula Sarmiento Silva

Contributing artists: Aubane Berthomm Martinez/ Arit Etukudo / Beth Easton / Charlie Wood / Constanza Miranda / Daniel Whiffen / Jenny Nash / Joseph Cabey/ Keith Race / L'Enfant/ Maria Amidu [with Ainoa Burgos Gonzalez /Gil Mualem Doron / Edi Jay Mandala / Estabrak / Hong Dam / Maria Amidu / Tugba Tirpan] /Mengwen Cao/ Najma Yusufi / Nelson Morales / Rayn Peter French / R.M. Snchez-Camus/ Tugba Tirpan / Sisters Uncut (Frank Riot)