In conversation with Lodoe Laura, artist Annie Macdonell discusses her recent exhibition “The Beyond Within,” which delves into the history of psychedelic therapy. She explores her collaborative films with Maïder Fortuné and the historical ripples that help us read our fractured moment, sustaining an uncynical belief in art even as its institutions falter.
Lodoe Laura
Lodoe Laura’s writing has been featured in BlackFlash, C Magazine, Esse arts + opinions, IMPULSE, Peripheral Reviewand Public Parking. She spent several years working in archives, galleries, museums and artist-run spaces. Lodoe currently lives in Toronto’s west end, where she teaches classes focused on embodied movement and practices acupuncture
Coming together for the first time in my tenure without a prompt, the following issue nonetheless feels as though it is circling something specific, even if that something is difficult to name.
“Emerging first from intuition, then developed along with and through extensive research, much of Clare’s work interrogates the gaze and body politic. Ahead of her solo exhibition at PAVED Arts in Saskatoon in November 2025, I spoke to Clare about her process and impetus to create; her work, which has traced a relief of feminist histories; and her interest in the gendered experience of perception and being perceived.”
Traces act as evidence of repression, dispersion, unlikely affinities, secret histories, kinship, and artistic lineages.
Over nine years and fifty exhibitions, window Winnipeg has been a space for mentorship, collaboration, and experimentation.