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Sheena Hoszko

from 7 Jan to 31 March 2019

The Limits of Care (LoC)

Canadian artist Sheena Hozsko, a sculptor and anti-prison activist, explores the relationship between physical control of bodies and mental health.

This season's resident at La Ferme du Buisson is Canadian artist Sheena Hoszko.A sculptor and anti-prison activist, she lives and works in Tio'tia:ke (Montréal), in Kanien'kehá:ka territory. Her work is based on long-term research into the power dynamics of geographical, architectural and psychological sites, and is fuelled by her own family's experience of migration and incarceration. Drawing on measurement and surveying practices and transcription of oral information and stories, she interprets and recreates experiential spaces for the viewer, using materials such as light, stained glass, fabrics, concrete and metal in conjunction with textual gleanings. Recently she has been focusing on the cartography of sites related to spatial control of the body – borders, boundary lines, fences – and on possible ways of recontextualising them as a political tool in a gallery situation.

 

Hoszko's project at La Ferme du Buisson is a concentrate of ten years of work and artistic, activist and academic engagement with the complex relationship between imprisonment, trauma and mental health. Her residency will centre on visits and meetings with caregivers working in prisons, migrant detention centres and psychiatric institutions. The result will be an ambitious site-specific work for the Take Care exhibition, as well as a series of workshops and encounters with the public.

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