Power and Gender

March 9 - May 27

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Marziah Mosavarzadeh, "is she staring at me, or am i staring at her?" Photographic prints

Marziah Mosavarzadeh, "is she staring at me, or am i staring at her?" Photographic prints

Coming to the Window Galleries in Arts Commons are works that revolve around ideas of gender, identity, and power dynamics.

Marzieh Mosavarzadeh’s "Is she staring at me, or am I staring at her?" is a collection of two sets of photographic prints, showing two different mediums, two representations of a self-portrait, and illustrates the narrative of a constantly shifting, overlapping identity.

melida topilko’s Gilded Lily is an installation comprised of altered found objects resplendent in gold and glitter, each individualized piece portraying an idealized notion of the “female.” The juxtaposition of images, objects and texts play with perception and expectation that is intended as humorous, but also has a deeper theoretical basis.

Zac Slams’ IT’S GONNA HURT uses dreamlike appropriated images that transform conventional accounts of transgender identity into a free-flowing, throbbing wander through estrogen and testosterone, Inspired by gender-screwy films like Glen or Glenda and Let Me Die a Woman.

Melissa Skowron’s In Service is a series of oil paintings that focus on the power dynamics that occur in the carefully curated environment of fine dining restaurants. Using a selective colour palette, wet layers of viscous paint are piled and dried on top of each other, leading to a construction of the figure that is an abstracted rendering of their physical qualities.