Enclosed | Milos Main & Éoghan McCullough

September 16 - September 19

Enclosed

 

                 surrounded or closed off on all sides.

                         “a dark enclosed space”

 

                 (of a religious order or other community) secluded from the outside world.

                          “a Mother Superior in an enclosed order”

 

Closing Reception: Friday Sept 19th, 7pm

In the exhibit Enclosed we want to discuss the parts of life that people close themselves off to. In our exhibition space is art about excluding difficulty, like trauma, life systems, emotions, yourself. Enclosure is also a physical experience. When public life and shared space are made inaccessible to you, for many reasons, your safest place becomes your only one. What does “touching grass” mean when the door won’t stay open, and the hill is too steep?

 

Milos Main is a trans expressionist artist working with themes of trauma, memory, and how that can affect someone’s day to day living. Their idea of feeling enclosed is based on an emotional sense of being closed off to the world, feeling different and surrounded by notions of it. They work with trauma as an individual with dissociative identity disorder who deals daily with memory compartmentalization, trying to use painting as a way to cope and express the feelings of identity loss. They include many versions of themselves in their paintings, trying to stop enclosing their emotions and parts inside themselves and get it out onto canvas.

 

Éoghan McCullough is also a trans expressionist painter. He is interested in blurring the lines of physical and emotional space, and in creating art objects that speak to his material conditions as a trans antifascist navigating chronic illness. Enclosure for him is about the material experience of being semi housebound, and finding the right balance between self improvement and rest, between recovery and reality. He’s been in bed a lot, and painting beds a lot. These works are a way to make physical the experience of being isolated by both your own choice and the whims of a body that cannot keep up with your heart.

Artspeak Gallery

1942 Wyandotte Street E
Windsor, N8Y1E4
Phone: 5199916350

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