Covid-19 Update:
Our team at the Factory Media Centre is committed to the health and safety of our members, staff, and community. Therefore we have decided to temporarily postpone all exhibitions, talks, and workshops until further notice. Please contact Kristina Durka by email at info@factorymediacentre.ca if you have any questions.
Art Crawl: March 13, 2020 | 7:00-900pm
Please join Factory Media Centre on Friday March 13, at 7:00pm for Sonali Menezes’ culminative exhibition.
Throughout this residency Sonali has been exploring the possibility of dispelling her lifelong jealousy of white women. She began with creating new video work that utilizes the lexicon from her Catholic upbringing to explore notions of purity and repentance. As she explored basic Catholic ritual, her curiosity with other forms of ritual peaked.
Performance* – Sonali’s performance will be postponed until further notice.
In flagellation, she lays out (not more than forty) strips of cosmetic wax and invites the public to participate in pressing and ripping a strip off of her back. While parallels could be drawn between the voluntary discomfort that may be offered up to God as a form of repentance, and the discomfort associated with conforming to accepted forms of hairless femininity, the answer is not so clear. But perhaps if she could exercise her freedom to participate in voluntary suffering, she could exorcise this dark cloud of jealousy as well.
About the artist:
Sonali Menezes is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hamilton, ON. She holds an Honours BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and is the youngest of triplets. Sonali utilizes performance, video, sculpture, printmaking, poetry and sometimes-exorbitant amounts of Manwich tomato sauce. Her work reflects her resistance to the histories of colonialism and racialization within which she is interwoven.
About the residency:
Sonali Menezes is Factory Media Centre’s February – March 2020 artist in residence. FMC’s Production Residency is an opportunity for artists and creators to utilize the space and resources at FMC to produce a new work or continue a developing body of work.