Event
On Abortion: "Research + Narratives & Platforms," A workshop with artist Laia Abril, presented by Abortion Beyond Bounds (www.abortionbeyondbounds.com)
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
When: Wednesday, October 10th, 1-3 PM
Where: Paterson Hall 116, McGill University
Spaces limited, registration required: info.igsf [at] mcgill.ca
For more information, contact Alanna Thain (alanna.thain [at] mcgill.ca)
http://www.laiaabril.com
The workshop led by Laia Abril aims to show participants a series of tools and strategies to enhance the investigation and construction of narratives within their own projects using her latest project On Abortion as an example if her practise. Abril’s work research-based revolves around conceptualization and interpretation of facts, working with photography, video and mixed media installations.
Laia Abril is a multidisciplinary artist working with photography, text, video and sound. She focuses on telling intimate stories to raise uneasy and hidden realities related to sexuality, eating disorders and gender equality. Her work has been shown in the US, Canada, the UK, China, and across Europe. Her works are held in private collections and museums, such as Musée de l’Elysée and Fotomuseum Winterthur (Switzerland) and MNAC (Spain). Her work is acknowledged by grants and nominations at Magnum Foundation, ICP-Infinity awards Foam Paul Huf, CatchLight and selected as a jury choice at Santa Fe Center and Plat(f)orm Fotomuseum Winterthur. More recently she has been awarded the Revelación Photo España Award, Fotopress Grant and Prix de la Photo Madame Figaro for her exhibition at Les Rencontres d’Arles (2016). Abril has embarked on the new long-term project, A History of Misogyny. Its first chapter On Abortion was published by Dewi Lewis on 2017; she is currently developing a second chapter, On Mass Hysteria.
Laia Abril's project "On abortion" documents and conceptualizes these dangers and damages caused by women's lack of legal, safe and free access to abortion through intimate story-telling. As she weaves her net of questions around ethics and morality, Abril also creates a series of meditative visual and textual manifestations of the social triggers, stigmas, and taboos around abortion that have remained invisible until now. Laia Abril’s new long-term project A History of Misogyny is a visual research undertaken through historical and contemporary comparisons. The on-going first chapter: On Abortion; was first presented at Les Rencontres d'Arles (2016).