ONE DAY, ONE VERY SIMPLE DAY...
Ghazaleh Baniahmad May 01 - September 30, 2017 Opening: Monday May 1st, 5.30-7pm Artist Talk: 6 pmCWSE Hallway Gallery 2nd Floor OISE 252 Bloor Street West Toronto, ON 10am - 8pm daily Free & accessible Four years ago, I moved with my family to Canada. At that time, my mother had her first stroke. Since then my life – as artist and daughter - has shifted. I focus my attention now on my daily struggle as a woman and on being a daughter of a sick mother and an immigrant. My creative work addresses three themes: mother, immigration and dreams. I reflect on my, and my mother’s, personal journeys. The process I use requires me to excavate thoughts and emotions, and in analyzing these and by making art, I experience a healing. I focus on the love among women in our family: how my mother’s love shaped me and my sister and made us strong. My mother’s stroke has made it difficult for her to hide her emotions and now her daughters ponder whether we need to s