MoCL Presents: "Hide" An Art Exhibition by Ivy McWilliams and Yves Argue

Event Description

The Ministry of Casual Living, in partnership with the Victoria Arts Council is proud to present “Hide” as part of the inaugural Queer Island Festival of the Arts.
“Hide” by artists Ivy McWilliams and Yves Argue will be exhibited in the MoCL Hallway Gallery from June 12-July 19th.
Opening: June 12th, 5-8PM
Gallery Hours: Thursdays, 5-8PM
Saturdays, 1-4PM
Until July 19th.
Free/By donation Entry.
750 Fairfield Rd., Wheelchair accessible through East Entrance.
From the artists of “Hide”:
"Our exhibition explores our experiences of queer relationships and social identities that have pushed us outside of the defaulted heteronormative lifestyle. Queer people are subjugated under heterosexual norms. These norms are so pervasive they lead to internalized regulation, permanently affecting how queer people are able to perceive themselves in relation to the rest of the world. This experience can be full of isolation and torment. These emotions are universally relevant, but because queer people are seen as a perversion of social norms, these emotions arise frequently and with great severity as queer people are isolated in their experiences not only by others, but also themselves. We are exploring those ideas through depictions of the human body and the animal. This morphology allows us to connect queer experiences to the instinctual social patterns of animal life. Our work mirrors the constant swinging pendulum in nature between joy and pain, between safety and danger. We seek to have the viewer relate to the animal as subject; that is, to feel animalized. An artist's use of animals in work is often to humanize the animal, but within this exhibition we seek to animalize the human."
Find out more about all the local events that are part of the Queer Island Festival of the Arts at https://www.queerisland.ca/