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"EAHR - Speaker Series" - Empathy |ˈempəTHē| Aesthetic Reflections on Marginalization
This exhibition seeks to examine the role of marginalization in everyday life and its influences on artistic practices.
EXHIBITION
Victoria Dvorsky, Rihab Essayh, Veronique Sunatori, Jonah Migicovsky, Mourad Kouri, Chloe Wise, Chara Le Marquand, Alyse Tunnell, Tamara Harkness, and Sophie Watts.
This exhibition seeks to examine the role of marginalization in everyday life and its influences on artistic practices. The goal is to create a framework that allows for empathetic viewing of works of art concerning experiences that may not be akin to one's own. In this way, it is hoped that visitors can become more aware of the ways in which empathy goes beyond acceptance and challenges normative assumptions about the lived experiences of others. Ten artists are featured: Victoria Dvorsky, Rihab Essayh, Veronique Sunatori, Jonah Migicovsky, Mourad Kouri, Chloe Wise, Chara Le Marquand, Alyse Tunnell, Tamara Harkness, and Sophie Watts.
Presented concurrently at two venues, this curatorial project is the first collaboration between Galerie VAV Gallery, the Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group (EAHR) and 11 undergraduate students in Dr. Alice Ming Wai Jim's fall 2013 course "ARTH 389 Race, Citizenship and Art in Canada." Artworks were selected by the student curatorial jury of the basis of proposals received from their open call. Curatorial essays written by Aaliyeh Afshar, Claude Bock, Meriam Bousehla-Demers, Isabel Connolly, Leyla Goka, Katrina Jurjans, Kris Millar (VAV co-Director), Marlee Parsons (EAHR), Ruby-Chanel Simard, Emma Sise, and Hannah van der Est, with editorial contributions by Alice Ming Wai Jim, are available online at http://empathyexhibition.tumblr.com
Special thanks to members of EAHR - Sarah Catherine De Montigny Racher, Adrienne Johnson, Marlee Parsons, and Brittany Watson, the Staff of Galerie VAV Gallery - Co-Directors Kris Millar and Clinton Glenn and Gallery Technician Catherine Fournier-Poirier, the Department of Art History, Eliana Stratica Mihail for the vitrine, and all of our volunteers. EAHR's activities are generously supported by the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, Concordia University.
Concordia University's VAV Gallery is the democratically-run student exhibition space operated by and for undergraduate students in the Faculty of Fine Arts. http://vavgallery.concordia.ca/gallery
EAHR (Ethnocultural Art Histories Research Group) is a student-driven research community that facilitates opportunities for exchange and creation in the examination of and engagement with issues of ethnic and cultural representation within the visual arts in Canada.
Additional information
Kris Millar, Co-Director, VAV Gallery or call 514-8482424, ext. 7956 (Wed 3-5pm), or Sarah Catherine De Montigny Racher, EAHR Media Coordinator.
Date: November 10-22, 2013
Venues:
(1) Galerie VAV Gallery, 1395 René Levesque Blvd., W. - Monday-Friday 9am-9pm
(2) Department of Art History Vitrine, EV Building, 1515 Ste. Catherine St., W., 3rd floor - any time
Opening:
November 12, 6-9pm, at Galerie VAV Gallery. Artists and curators in attendance
Free admission
EAHR's activities are made possible with the support of the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art and the Department of Art History at Concordia University.