Ashoona in the Giardini

Jessie McNeil
Vancouver, British Columbia

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Size

20.5" x 25"

Medium

Mixed media collage on paper

My interdisciplinary work addresses themes of place, memory, the quotidian, time and migration. I believe that the transience of my current subject matter is best reflected in the medium of collage. For, while our everyday rituals are as ubiquitous and consistent as the production and consumption of mass media (printed or digital), they are also precious or fleeting and perhaps, in many ways, miraculous. Here my photo-based collage, made of hundreds of cut paper fragments depicts a moment within the Venice Biennale. Bridging context and conversation, visitors flock here to experience a world within a world, within a world.

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Ashoona in the Giardini

Jessie McNeil
Vancouver, British Columbia

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Jessie McNeil

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Jessie McNeil
Vancouver, British Columbia

Jessie McNeil’s layered, intricate collages are based on her own photographs, often depicting fragments of everyday life in public spaces. A graduate of Emily Carr University, McNeil has exhibited locally and internationally in both private and public institutions and has participated in residencies in Japan, Estonia, Denmark, and across Canada. She is a proud mother of three, co-coordinator of cultural events in and around her hometown of Vancouver and a co-founder and active member of Motherload Collective.

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