‘Strike a pose’
‘Looking Out, Looking In: Exploring the Self-Portrait’
![An installation view from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Yasumasa Morimura's Doublonnage (Marcel) 1988 and two works by George W Lambert: The artist and his wife 1904 and Self portrait with Ambrose Patterson, Amy Lambert and Hugh Ramsay c.1901–03, March 2023 / Photograph: J Ruckli, QAGOMA](/index.php/system/files/styles/wide/private/2023-04/QAG_LookingOutLookingIn_installationview_20230328_jruckli_002.jpg?itok=SyhKHpSU)
An installation view from ‘Looking Out, Looking In’ featuring Yasumasa Morimura's Doublonnage (Marcel) 1988 and two works by George W. Lambert: The artist and his wife 1904 and Self portrait with Ambrose Patterson, Amy Lambert and Hugh Ramsay c.1901–03, March 2023 / Collection: QAGOMA / Photograph: Joe Ruckli, QAGOMA
‘Strike a pose’ presents artworks made in the first decades of the twentieth century, in which the artists assume the posture of the ‘Grand Manner’ or ‘swagger’ portrait, alongside Japanese artist Yasumasa Morimura’s contemporary parody Doublonnage (Marcel) 1988, which riffs on art history and disrupts norms around gender and race.
![QAGOMA Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1936-01-01](/index.php/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1-0245_001_7.jpg?itok=jhVlHMGm)
Self portrait 1936
- HAYSOM, Melville - Creator
![Artwork Doublonnage (Marcel) this artwork made of Type C photograph on paper bonded to aluminium, created in 1988-01-01](/index.php/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1989.170_002_4.jpg?itok=YtHCgbUb)
Doublonnage (Marcel) 1988
- MORIMURA, Yasumasa - Creator
![Artwork Self portrait this artwork made of Oil on canvas, created in 1938-01-01](/index.php/system/files/styles/large/private/object-images/1-0294_001_7.jpg?itok=CbtPK_1x)
Self portrait c.1940
- ROWELL, Will - Creator
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![Chatchai Puipia / Thailand, b.1964 / Siamese smile: Siamese intellectual (from 'Siamese smile' series) 1995 / Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 202 x 303cm / Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Accession No: 1996.218 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Chatchai Puipia A painting of a huge-scale male-appearing head set amongst lotus flowers, with a ladder leaning against the person's eyebrow.](/index.php/system/files/styles/large/private/2023-03/1996.218_001%28crop%29_AM.jpg?itok=hbnxauQ9)
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![Chatchai Puipia / Thailand, b.1964 / Siamese smile: Siamese intellectual (from 'Siamese smile' series) 1995 / Oil and synthetic polymer paint on canvas / 202 x 303cm / Purchased 1996. Queensland Art Gallery Foundation / Accession No: 1996.218 / Collection: Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art / © Chatchai Puipia A painting of a huge-scale male-appearing head set amongst lotus flowers, with a ladder leaning against the person's eyebrow.](/index.php/system/files/styles/large/private/2023-03/1996.218_001%28crop%29_AM.jpg?itok=hbnxauQ9)