Curator: Theo Fox This series, compromised of clipping from âJ.K. Rowling Writes abiyt Her Reasons for Speaking out on Sex and Gender Issusâ and Chapter 18 of âHarry Potter and the Goblet of Fireâ, is a radical form of erasure poetry in which the rest of the page is discarded entirely, allowing for subsequent decontextualization […]
Curator: Tamara Frooman Self-Portrait in F Major is a series of Frankensteinesque self-portraits created out of selfies taken over the past decade, rotated and overlapped to produce a layered effect that represents the constant struggle to conceptualize a stable and coherent self, despite external intactness. The portraits juxtapose the sense of fragmentation that arises from […]
Curator: Olivia De Sanctis The Value Village Poems are a series which combines found materials collected from several visits to the same Value Village location. Their title suggests a practice of hunting or searching for hand-me-down objects, but it also implies a practice of consumerism. Here the found texts and images are not purchased but […]
Curator: Asa Brunet-Jaily âNotes from the Land of The Commuterâ is an ever-expanding project if geolocation and site-specific petry. For this series, I allowed the world around me, the world that plagues every walking hour of my days in this city, to engulf me. I opened myself up to the voices of my environment, to […]
Curator: Asa Brunet-Jaily (from left to right) materials: digital art using photography and drawing, printed on paper âIn âSelf-Portrait Seriesâ, ephemeral moments of self-reflection are shaped into images and words. These self-portraits go beyond my physical self, escaping instead the thoughts. I had as I self-consciously looked at myself in the mirror. Through multimodality-photography, writing, […]
Curators: Olivia De Sanctics The Asemic Love Letters are an experiment with convention. The illegible text can be deciphered as a series of love letters and notes due to elements on and surrounding the pages. Furthermore, the texts are not codes or puzzles which can be solved. While writing the letter and working on creating […]
Curators: Aditi Parikh "you are a euphemism" is a body of self-portraits that seek to productively obscure my self to reveal a collective self. An assemblage of collages sourced from Psychology Today, Elle Magazine, and a Woman's World edition on female weight loss, supplemented by the University of Toronto's Varsity. the creation of this work […]
Curator: Nashwa Lina Khan This piece takes from archival images of Bousbir - what was essentially a sex prison in Morocco during colonial occupation and news articles from the present about an âuncolonizedâ Morocco The role of Moroccan women in the world is one that I explore throughout these pieces and my larger body […]