Ashna Jacob
Ashna Jacob (she/her) is a visual artist, designer and printmaker from Kerala, India. She currently resides in amiskwaciwâskahikan or so-called Edmonton on Treaty 6 Territory. She works primarily in printmaking and often uses video, installation, and performance. Her recent works explore the themes of social relationships, media, and consumerism. Her current work aims to explore systems of privilege and oppression, and observe human identities on both personal and political levels. Instagram: @ashna.jpeg
EXHIBITION: The Equivalence of Alloyed Gold
October 6, 2022 - November 26, 2022Featuring works by Stephanie E Creaghan, Andy Slater, Gillian Dykeman, Chandra Melting Tallow, Ashna Jacob, Aislinn Thomas, Anne Macmillan, Tamyka Bullen, and Dayna Danger
Curated by Megan Gnanasihamany and Morgan Melenka
On view: October 6 – November 26, 2022
Opening Reception: Thursday, October 6th, 7 to 9 pm
The making of art history is a process of translation. It flattens and unfolds through digital interfaces and methodologies of internet conservation, allowing exhibitions to spread through a temporal daisy chain of image, text, catalog, and critique. This chain of distillation — from material art object or experience to description and flat image—disseminates cultural themes, concepts, and conclusions across artistic landscapes, allowing for particular figures, galleries, and publications to become authoritative texts on contemporary work. Taking the 2018 Art Gallery of Ontario exhibition Anthropocene as its starting point, The Equivalence of Alloyed Gold is a year-long experimental commissioning and exhibition process hosted by Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) incorporating ideas of communication and sensory translation.
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