“As We Rise thoughtfully forms bridges between the photographer, their subjects, and audiences, creating connections of trust and intergenerational memory.”
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“In this Shakespearean reimagining, Hannah and his collaborators additionally present the complex, layered experiences of women who are redefining their lives. Their time has been disrupted and, in making space to make art, they can reclaim it.”
“In a year of making, many bowls will collapse, vases will break, greenwares will be dropped and glazes will run.”
“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.”
— Octavia E. Butler
“Up above emerged a trans sunset— the kind my friend in Regina had named as their favourite part of living there. The extraordinary pink and blue sky was my perfect finale, a blanket I was ready to receive.”
Angel Callandar and Yan Wen Chang discuss Chang’s new body of paintings, ‘A. Dream’, produced during her MFA, some of her art historical influences, and the concept of the Asian American Dream.
“Whether at the level of the individual work or collaborative exhibition project, Yee makes sure that each project is an act of community-building. In doing so, they continually reorient themselves in relation to the world.”
“It took me some time to come to any kind of understanding about the complex relationships between Black people and the natural world. It wasn’t until my adult years that I realized those relations run deep and are underscored and influenced by multiple and sometimes overlapping histories and cultural contexts.”
“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.”
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.