Parallel Paradise
12:00-6:00pm
12:00-6:00pm
Parallel Paradise
Susan Clarahan
Reception September 21, 2023 5 to 9 p.m.
OCAD U Graduate Gallery
205 Richmond St. W, Toronto, ON
Exhibition Dates: September 21-28, 2023 weekdays 12 to 6 p.m., weekend by appointment
@clarahan
www.clarahan.com
My work aims to create a vernacular for erotic power, creating figurative metaphors that use material and imagery from the natural world as stand-ins and extensions of women's bodies. Our bodies are sites of investigation, queer sex acts, sensuality, pleasure, the power of the erotic. In this exhibition, pleasure is both methodology and resistance. I challenge the story that patriarchy tells, reclaiming women's power to create a Sapphic, feminine universe where we have sexual and erotic autonomy, and create a Parallel Paradise. This is a soft story from the beginning, building a world towards sexual liberation.
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