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In/Visible: Body as Reflective Site
Hannah Claus, Dayna Danger, Maria Ezcurra, Sandeep Johal, Kama La Mackerel & Nadia Myre
Guest Curators: Lori Beavis, Maria Ezcurra and Natasha S. Reid
IMPACTS Director: Shaheen Shariff

Talk: Wednesday June 19 at 4:30 pm: Project Director: Shaheen Shariff, Curators: Lori Beavis, Maria Ezcurra and Natasha Reid

The McClure Gallery is pleased to present the In/Visible: Body as Reflective Site (In/Visible) exhibition, which offers a dialogic and reflective artistic space to critically engage with the conditions and actions that promote or combat sexual violence. The exhibition makes the issue of sexual violence more visible within the community through the work of the six selected artists – Hannah Claus, Dayna Danger, Maria Ezcurra, Sandeep Johal, Kama La Mackerel and Nadia Myre – as in their work the body is shown to be a site for expression, empowerment, and resistance. The presentation of these artists’ work activates under-voiced realities associated with sexual violence across a broad spectrum of experience. The primary question guiding this exhibition is: How can the body be artistically employed to understand, expose, challenge, and disrupt sexual violence? The works will pose further questions, offer counter-narratives to dominant discourses related to sexual violence, and present potential methods for dismantling and preventing the insidious culture of sexual violence present in our society. The curators and IMPACTS Director, James ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ Professor Shaheen Shariff, aim to share the work and subject matter across diverse communities within Montreal. To achieve this, there is a robust educational program associated with the exhibition and a catalogue that will be launched on the night of the opening.

This exhibition is an outgrowth of ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ’s IMPACTS: Collaborations to Address Sexual Violence on Campus, a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Partnership Grant (IMPACTS). Designed to research sexual violence through various lenses, IMPACTS is addressing, dismantling, and preventing sexual violence through developing evidence-based research and solutions in the fields of education, law, policy, arts, popular culture, news, and social media. To achieve this, in addition to the ³ÉÈËVRÊÓƵ community, IMPACTS is collaborating with thirteen universities and thirteen community partners. As one of the chosen community partners, the Visual Arts Centre’s primary contribution to this effort is the In/Visible exhibition.