The theme of the exhibition explores the significance of portraiture as an important tool in the documentation of a time and place.In a post, post-modern era, portraiture appears to have broken new ground, moving beyond its basic edict to capture a similarity to its subject, serving, now, as a medium through which notions of identity, power, and socio-political dynamics are constructed and de-constructed. The proposed exhibition seeks to examine the re-emergence of this genre through the eyes of twelve contemporary artists, who re-invent the portrait to become a symbol of their times.