SANDEEP JOHAL

IN/VISIBLE: BODY AS REFLECTIVE SITE (group)
McClure Gallery - Visual Arts Centre | Montreal, Quebec | June 6 - June 29, 2019

In/Visible: Body as Reflective Site 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 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.

Guest Curators: Lori Beavis, Maria Ezcurra and Natasha Reid, in conjunction with McGill University IMPACTS Director, Shaheen Shariff
Photo Credit: Paul Litherland