Opening Reception: Friday, October 18, 7-10 pm

Familiar and strange: estranged. Hiding behind curtains and plastic furniture coverings. What is present but never named? How can we grieve the death of family itself?

A ritual of mourning creates a passageway through loss into healing. Tracing the Guts of a Ghost is the product of a journey to the feet of the lost mother. Through the use of mouldmaking as an act of care in the face of fear and the unknown, the work attempts to resolve the unresolved by speaking the unspoken. 

By tracing the guts of the ghost, we learn how to grieve.

HollyJo is an interdisciplinary artist currently completing a BFA from OCAD U in Sculpture/Installation with a minor in Ceramic Arts. By leaning into the emotional atmosphere of memory, trauma, identity and mourning, she explores themes of intimate vulnerabilities, bodily integrity and time travel as a source of empathic healing and honoring experience. HollyJo finds solace in storytelling through object making and forging rituals that celebrate the wisdom of impermanence.

www.hollyjo.ca

Exhibition link:

http://www.xpace.info/exhibition-event/hollyjo-tracing-the-guts-of-a-ghost/

Exhibition Essay by Clementine Morrigan:

http://www.xpace.info/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/Project-Space_HollyJo_Essay.pdf