In Person
Regina
Art Exhibition
ArtsArts: VisualArts: Dance
Care Exhibition
The COVID-19 pandemic has destroyed health, relationships and exposed inequality in access to healthcare, economic privilege and distrust of surveillance states. Historical pandemics, such as smallpox, polio and tuberculosis, and hidden epidemics, such as mental health and women's reproductive health issues, haunt our daily lives.
The exhibition Care provides opportunities to discover the many ways illness can alter lives, arouse empathy and reflect audience members' experiences of the medical system. Artists such as Karishma Joshi and Tea Gerbeza use their transformed bodies or treatment apparatuses as the raw materials for their artworks; Joshi creates a kind of calendar, marking the passing of time with transparent envelopes stuffed with wads of her fallen hair, while Gerbeza weaves her used diabetic test strips and coiled paper strips into quilled tendrils revealing the bed as an ambivalent landscape.
Others, such as George Glenn and Ashely Johnson, in collaboration with Karlie King, take the confusing and even dehumanizing machinations of the health interface as their subject matter. Glenn’s paintings and drawings piece together memories of his childhood experiences, including being hospitalized for polio. Johnson, who lives with a congenital heart condition, and King seek to reveal the unseen. They invite people to explore and understand their internal anatomy in their installation, The Moving Heart. Viewers are invited to discover their hearts through feeling and holding anatomical representations of hearts sculpted in clay by King, participating in free experiential anatomy workshops led by Johnson, and listen to a soundtrack crafted by Jeff Morton using hospital sounds from one of Johnson’s heart echocardiograms.
The exhibition Care provides opportunities to discover the many ways illness can alter lives, arouse empathy and reflect audience members' experiences of the medical system. Artists such as Karishma Joshi and Tea Gerbeza use their transformed bodies or treatment apparatuses as the raw materials for their artworks; Joshi creates a kind of calendar, marking the passing of time with transparent envelopes stuffed with wads of her fallen hair, while Gerbeza weaves her used diabetic test strips and coiled paper strips into quilled tendrils revealing the bed as an ambivalent landscape.
Others, such as George Glenn and Ashely Johnson, in collaboration with Karlie King, take the confusing and even dehumanizing machinations of the health interface as their subject matter. Glenn’s paintings and drawings piece together memories of his childhood experiences, including being hospitalized for polio. Johnson, who lives with a congenital heart condition, and King seek to reveal the unseen. They invite people to explore and understand their internal anatomy in their installation, The Moving Heart. Viewers are invited to discover their hearts through feeling and holding anatomical representations of hearts sculpted in clay by King, participating in free experiential anatomy workshops led by Johnson, and listen to a soundtrack crafted by Jeff Morton using hospital sounds from one of Johnson’s heart echocardiograms.
2024
Oct 31
2025
Jan 11
Cost: Free
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Accessibility
- Wheelchair Accessible
- Deaf / Hard of Hearing
- Sight Impairment
- Safe and Inclusive Space