Translucent, overlapping forms echo architectural drawings, but their fragile outlines pulse with haunting beauty, charting the emotional landscape we associate with the idea of home.
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Several of the works in this issue consider how the domestic is shaped not only by private life but also by global currents, family histories, and consumer goods, nudging at the conditions that shape how we live, where we live, and with whom we choose to share our lives.
Following a thread from colonial hauntings to Freudian repression, Jacob reflects on the aftermath of the recent ousting of Wanda Nanibush from her position at the Art Gallery of Ontario over her pro-Palestinian stance, examining what fault lines are revealed by the residual traces left in this wake.
“Elaine Cameron-Weir’s material transformations reference, eschew, and play with these sticky meanings to reveal the invisible traces of power that dance around every aspect of our lives.”
As the conversation unfolds, the two discuss alchemy, medicine, sickness, symbolism, and artmaking in a tender exchange which is both enchanting and artful.
Traces act as evidence of repression, dispersion, unlikely affinities, secret histories, kinship, and artistic lineages.
the evolving nature of solidarity in fraught moment
Expanding on a discussion that took place at Anthology Film Archives following a screening of Lily Jue Sheng’s work, Steff Huì Cí Ling examines what it means to organize as arts workers while building solidarity beyond the sector and create art with “working-class intention” in a “bourgeois context.”
