Franz Seachel, Anjalica Solomon, and Alyssa Amarshi | Masi Medicine: Joyful Nourishment

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From Left to Right: Alyssa Amarshi, Franz Seachel, Anjalica Solomon

Courtesy of the Gallery.

Spring Opening: Saturday, April 15 | 6:30 p.m.−9 p.m.

Masi Medicine: Joyful Nourishment brings together a visual diary of poetry, dance, and music. Exhibiting together for the first time are South Asian artists from Enable, a non-profit collective dedicated to uplifting art projects by emerging and marginalized voices.

The word “masi” means aunt in Punjabi, Hindi, Gujarati, and other South Asian dialects. Masi Medicine honours the masis in the artists’ own lives. Regardless of blood ties, masis have been instrumental in cultivating communal wellbeing and providing sisterhood.

Poets Franz Seachel and Anjalica Solomon, along with dancer Alyssa Amarshi, delve into identity, nourishment through play, and centring joy during the course of their residency. Their sensory journey will feature digital projections of the artists’ work in development through poetry and movement, accompanied by soundscapes that invite audiences to slow down, breathe, and move with intention.

Artist Anjalica Solomon shares, “We wanted to make an exhibit in which we consider deeply what a world of care looks like—a world in which we are joyfully nourishing each other. So often when we speak of rest, we speak of being gentle with one another. We speak of a softness that a world outside of patriarchal violence can afford. We dream of a world that invites a slow tenderness, outside of capitalism. Masi Medicine envisions a future where collective care is the norm.”