Photo credit: Ken Turner http://www.tworiversartgallery.com/Last Friday night the SATS group attended a workshop at the Two Rivers Art Gallery focused around the Missing Women exhibit by Betty Kovacic. After being prepped by a "tour guide" of sorts, we quietly made our way through the gallery of portraits portraying 50 women who had gone missing on Vancouver's East side. Many of these women have since been found on the Picton farm.
In the centre of the room was a crowd of 50 black shrouded bodies hanging earily by invisible string from the ceiling. These bodies each had a sash across their chest with the writing "As a child I dreamed of....." and various endings to this phrase such as ....being a nurse;....being a ballerina;......helping people. The portraits around the room were accompanied by dial-in music, different for each woman, which we listened to privately through head sets.
The combination of this multisensory exhibit hit all of us in different ways and on multiple levels. It was a very sobering exhibit which caused us to take another look at these "invisible" people in our world. The people that society would rather not think about; the homeless; the sex trade workers; the addicted. And we were reminded that each of these people were once children with hopes and dreams just like ours.
After discussing our thoughts and feelings from the exhibit, we made our way to the art studio where we were able to express our own feelings on canvas. We completed our own portraits which are now hanging in the art gallery; in essence uniting us with these women in a small way.
Thanks to Maureen Morgan for her blog contribution... Well said Mau!!
In the centre of the room was a crowd of 50 black shrouded bodies hanging earily by invisible string from the ceiling. These bodies each had a sash across their chest with the writing "As a child I dreamed of....." and various endings to this phrase such as ....being a nurse;....being a ballerina;......helping people. The portraits around the room were accompanied by dial-in music, different for each woman, which we listened to privately through head sets.
The combination of this multisensory exhibit hit all of us in different ways and on multiple levels. It was a very sobering exhibit which caused us to take another look at these "invisible" people in our world. The people that society would rather not think about; the homeless; the sex trade workers; the addicted. And we were reminded that each of these people were once children with hopes and dreams just like ours.
After discussing our thoughts and feelings from the exhibit, we made our way to the art studio where we were able to express our own feelings on canvas. We completed our own portraits which are now hanging in the art gallery; in essence uniting us with these women in a small way.
Thanks to Maureen Morgan for her blog contribution... Well said Mau!!
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