Hoszko’s presentation focuses on recent visual art produced in and outside of Canadian and American prisons, and situates art production and reception (or lack thereof) in relation to harm and care. By doing so, Hoszko asks the questions: what do we do when people cause harm? What do we do when we cause harm?
Mar 10, 2018 – Mar 10, 2018
Past
Of Birds and Ointments: Carceral Art, Harm, and Care
Sheena Hoszko
Event Documentation
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Event Documentation
- Presenter
- Sheena Hoszko
**Sheena Hoszko** lives and works in Tio’tia:ke (Montreal), in Kanien’kehá:ka territory. A sculptor, anti-prison organizer, and Polish settler, Sheena Hoszko explores the connections between physical control of the body and mental health. Her work is based on long-term research into the power dynamics of geographical, architectural and psychological sites, and is informed by her own family’s experience of migration and incarceration. Drawing on measurement and surveying practices and transcription of oral information and stories, she interprets and recreates experiential spaces for the viewer, using materials such as light, stained glass, fabric, concrete and metal in conjunction with textual gleanings. Recently she has been focusing on the cartography of sites related to the spatial control of the body—borders, boundary lines, fences—and on possible ways of recontextualizing them as a political tool in a gallery situation.
The Blackwood
University of Toronto Mississauga
3359 Mississauga Road
Mississauga, ON L5L 1C6
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(905) 828-3789
The galleries are open. Hours of operation: Monday–Saturday, 12–5pm.
Holiday hours: regular gallery hours are in effect until and including Saturday, December 6. The galleries will then be closed for the holidays, except for regular hours on Saturday, December 13. In 2026, the galleries reopen Monday, January 5.
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