gasp

gasp
Brittany/Andrew Forrest
September 13-22, 2023

Satellite Project Space
121 Dundas St, London, ON
Monday-Friday 2-7pm, Saturday 12-5pm

Closing Reception: Friday, September 22, 4:30-6:30pm

What lives within the silence of our perceptions? Reverberations between interactions that coerce the human condition. The intimacy of alienation correlates, the perceptions may vary but the disturbance of one’s identity for soundness is shared. Often seen within the conduct of psychological defense mechanisms, the vulnerable conscious and the preserving facet of the subconscious mind are both at play. It is within the duality of these points of entry and the autonomy of our imagination that change can dwell.  

Raised in family decay, and later estranged, Ontario-based artist Brittany/Andrew Forrest’s understanding of the self was fermented, and all peculiarities were tapered into her environment. This disorientation led her to uphold variegated connection as the solution. In Gasp, Forrest acknowledges the terror within sociological systems that oppose and suppress the psychology of individuality. She highlights aberrations within social perceptions, including the intrusiveness of classification, and that we find complacent security within the alignments. This false sense of indemnification prompts redefining the ‘norm’ as abolishing normalization. 

In Gasp, Forrest realizes the comprehensive terrain that is identity, to actualize autonomy. She penetrates dysphoria, perception fabrications, power dynamics, and sensory perceptions. Forrest evaluates mnemonic memory correlations of comfort and malaise, to reveal new apprehensions of psychology, sociology, and philosophy within humanness. These concepts are guiding our vulnerable self-acknowledgments. These ideas that understand we within humanity are solidified into character development. Gasp stages a narrative that activates the imagination—the vibrancy of the fantastical and grimness of the autobiographical speak to the alienating elements within queerness.

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