M Gnanasihamany

Drawing on action and writing from political movements, including prison abolitionist organizing, migrant justice, queer and trans liberation, and anti-colonial, land-based resistance, M. focuses on how we might see the world differently, beyond and against a dominant gaze. They use sculpture, printed matter, painting, video, and poetry to explore sites and strategies of potential resistance to carceral infrastructure including sabotage, blockades, camouflage, reclamation, and looking back. 

Prisons, borders, surveillance networks, resource extraction, and privatization of land alter our vision, our bodies, and our understandings of our environment and ourselves. What kinds of geographies, landscapes, and communities become possible when we are able to see beyond the walls, fences, and property lines that mark systems of exclusion, abandonment, and control? How might we see differently as we become more free?

M Gnanasihamany is an artist, writer, and curator born in Edmonton (AB) and based in Montreal.

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