University of Regina: MFA Exhibition: endings + beginnings
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Neutral Ground 1835 Scarth Street, Regina, Saskatchewan S4P 2G2
University of Regina MFA exhibition, "endings + beginnings," 2021
endings + beginnings
University of Regina MFA Candidates:
Alyssa Scott, Amy Snider, Brenda Watt, Larissa Kitchemonia, Raegan Moynes, Shima Aghaaminiha, Shamim Aghaaminiha
Our lives are filled with beginnings and endings. The Covid-19 pandemic has imposed an ending and a beginning on all of us. Like many defining events, a line has been drawn, defining our lives between pre-Covid and post-Covid. Other global changes, political, technological, and environmental, also loom or are happening at what feels like an increasing, continuous pace. These constant changes in our lives and our understanding of the world lead to questions of where one contemporary moment ends and another begins. The works in endings + beginnings each reflect on this question.
About the works:
Shima and Shamim Aghaaminiha’s clay sculptures both convey their desire to see an end to the oppression of women in their home country of Iran and what it means to begin a new life in Canada. Shamim’s piece “The Ayatollah's Office” features the Iranian dictator’s favourite method of ending people’s lives. Shima’s piece, “The Volume of Words,” reflects on the various ceilings and forms of abuse that women face in Iran.
Larissa Kitchemonia’s painting, “Pregnancy Brain,” conveys the thoughts she had on the beginnings of creation while pregnant with her youngest son.
Triggered by resurfaced memories from the past during the early days of the pandemic, Raegan Moynes engages in a material negotiation of identity in, “Worm” through the reconstruction of her personal wardrobe, questioning the boundaries between past, present and future notions of self.
Alyssa Scott’s miniature print installation sculpture “Groundwater Cave,” and print, “Imaginary Stream,” (2021) are about a stream behind her home. She questions its beginning and end points, from the surface water to its continuation underground through which she contemplates her relationship to water, land, life matter, and the home.
Amy Snider’s sculptures, “Dust” and, “A Pound of Cure,” convey her personal dilemma of how to face the fact that we are destroying the planet while continuing to live and create.
Narratives implicitly evoke the concept of beginnings and endings, and Brenda Watt’s ceramic plates, “Mom and Michael,” “Sewing with a New Pattern,” and “Achemon Sphinx,” memorialize Covid-19 narratives that have become familiar to us within the past year.
Artist Talk: endings + beginnings
With emerging artists, Shima Aghaaminiha, Shamim Aghaaminiha, Larissa Kitchemonia, Raegan Moynes, Alyssa Scott, Amy Snider and Brenda Watt, from the University of Regina MFA program
When: Apr 14, 2021 07:00 PM Saskatchewan
Where: Zoom. Register in advance
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