“In Grotesque in the Grotto, Schneider exalts fatness. She centralizes this body, strips it down. Though her figure stands in for the continued rejections the fat body endures, it also stands out for its deft embodiment of the grotesque that lays bare all social nightmares.”
Articles
This idea of a vegetable menace emerged in the Hollywood imaginary post-WW2, yet these monsters embody larger meanings: assertions of colonial power, war, racism, and nation states, rooted in ideals that have fundamentally shaped dominant agricultural systems in western culture.
With a protean approach to medium, creating handmade clay jewellery and artists’ multiples, large-scale tapestries and soft sculptures, Pimienta honours her Afro-Colombian and Indigenous Wayuu heritage while simultaneously challenging the status quo.
Notes on Digging a Hole is an excerpt from a chapbook of the same name by Zachary Ayotte published by Glass House Press in 2022.
Much of our fall editorial program considers the environment and how its overlapping histories inform contemporary social and cultural contexts. Through conversations about the evolution of monster plants, equity in the outdoors, and the aesthetics of food and fat, these works explore the myriad of ways that we can still advocate for ourselves and the natural world.
Luther Konadu speaks with artist Leonard Suryajaya about his elaborately staged photography and his integration of humour, culture, and family in his artistic process.
“As we listen attentively to our headphones—whether in-person, outside, or on the web—the sounds reverberate between various dimensions, and a creative, sensorial, and embodied engagement is created within the place and space we are in.”
Embracing the curiosity of his audience, Sean Weisgerber’s practice explores the materiality of painting and encourages a close reading through the repetition of patterns and numbers.
Artist, writer, and cultural worker Christina Hajjar integrates objects and food into her practice – exploring their social and political associations through memory, rituals, and conversations over shared food at hookah lounges.
Diane Borsato, Artist and Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, describes her experience with community and fruit trees through ‘ORCHARD’, a public art project that continues to grow in Mississauga, Ontario.
“Resisting complete legibility, his larger-than-life, solitary characters are only accessible to those who take the time to get closer. Only then can viewers make out the figures from blotched brushstrokes, or discern delicately embroidered words that ventriloquize subjects’ thoughts.”