Scarves reveal & conceal installation: 12 acrylic digital panels, clothes rails, 4 resin masks on muslin, printed canvas text maze  (2006,  June Bianchi: artwork;  Carol Cooke: 9 poems).  Commissioned for Study Gallery of Modern Art, Poole & Arts Council

Scarves reveal & conceal investigates the role of scarves and veils as symbols of personal, socio-cultural and group identity through the installation of 12 interactive multicultural portrait panels, surrounding a text-maze flowing from the mouths of four oracular masks.  The text-maze explores a wide spectrum of opinion and responses to veils and scarves from a diversity of cultural contexts, through the stories and views of participants, news features and the poetry of Carol Cooke.  While images of diversity can be celebrated for their societal enrichment, offering a multiplicity of possibilities and choices; anxiety around notions of ‘difference’ can create suspicion, confusion and even fear - Scarves reveal & conceal questions received perceptions and prejudices, challenging them through playful and experimental opportunities for interaction.

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