Cindy Stelmackowich: TRENCHED

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Cindy Stelmackowich, "Blossoms Dressing: Women and the War Effort," 2022

WW1 metal splints, wax, pigment, bandages, linen

VIU and The VIEW Gallery presents:

Cindy Stelmackowich - T R E N C H E D

September 15 – November 11

Opening reception Thursday, September 15, 7pm

Artist talk Friday, September 16, 12-1pm,

Building 355 room 203

The VIEW Gallery is excited to welcome Ottawa based sculptor, Cindy Stelmackowich to present new works in her exhibition TRENCHED. The projects she will be bringing to VIU explore notions of care and violence as each relates to the history of medical advancement and war.

Her creative practice includes the sourcing and collection of vintage medical equipment, medical texts and other related historical artifacts from the last century. She weaves these objects into installations that aid in a reframing of narratives we have long since taken at face value. Recently, her research has explored the relationship that medicine has had with war and how war’s carnage has created a kind of laboratory (out of necessity) to advance the realm of care.