The Commission on the Status of Women is celebrating their 60th year by investigating women in Pakistan, especially those effected by (or who have the threat of being effected by) honour killings. To educate the audience and contextualize honour killings within Pakistan, the commission hosted a screening of Canadian director Sharmeen Obaid Chinoy’s Academy Award winning short documentary “a Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness”.
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Finding Refuge in Art with Valda Zobens.
Valda Zobens is best known for her paintings dealing with themes of temporary migration. Tempered by her own family’s immigrant experience, she began her Perilous Journey series, which is made up of one collection thus far. On March 2, Perilous Journey was added to, though, with Perilous Journey & Threads and Memories. Composed of a series of the artist’s paintings, some of which are accompanied by media images, Threads and Memories is a direct response to the contemporary refugee crisis.
Przemek Pyszczek’s Soviet Sculptures.
Found in Berlin’s Schöneweide region, sculptor Przemek Pyszczek’s studio is a long way from home. Drawn to his home country of Poland’s kitschy charm, Pyszczek found his future muses in Soviet-era artifacts. With a background in architecture his artistic obsession began with photography of Wielka Płyta, Poland’s solution to the immediate need for post-war housing, and later evolved to sculptures that incorporated Soviet architecture-inspired elements.
Mihaela Noroc’s the Atlas of Beauty.
Mihaela Noroc is a Romanian photographer who is on the hunt for untraditional beauties. Her search has her travelling the globe, stopping in countries like Kyrgyzstan, India, and even North Korea in order to chronicle women in her photography project, titled the Atlas of Beauty.
Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy’s Oscar Nod.
Obaid-Chinoy earns an Oscar nomination for her chilling documentary short “a Girl in the River: the Price of Forgiveness”, which outlines the atrocious trend in Pakistan’s “honour killings”.
Philippe Malouin’s Swings: a Caesarstone playground.
Canadian-born designer, Philippe Malouin, premiered his most recent unconventional art instalment with Swings at Vancouver’s Interior Design Show West.
Lindsay Cooper 