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BORDER/ LINES: Cultures Contexts Canadas, 1992: Issue Number 24125
" …To my mind some of the most engaging images or ones that call up remembrance in complex ways and thus, foreground the instability of making mean(s) / making sense. The installation piece " Daughters and Sisters" by Katherine Zsolt, Ruth Koski Harris's canvas " Pieta", and Christie Wilcox triptych, " D'une Moment de la Vie", are all noteworthy in this regard. "Daughters and Sisters" is made up a body casts (of 14 of Zsolt's women friends) hanging, by their bound feet upside down from the ceiling. The women are nude and with slight variation use their hands and arms to "cover" (protect?) their torsos. Facial features are replaced with black shapes that might be interpreted either as masks are holes. This is a surprisingly beautiful and powerful installation: simultaneously it evokes a remembrance of the 14 women killed in Montréal, " pairs" each of them with a body of a living woman, and in through feature-less (anonymous) faces invites women to see ourselves in these bodies / align ourselves with the dead. It has become almost a (feminist) rally-cry to remember the names, to etch them indelibly in (social) memory; i think that this installation revises that call: foregrounding remembrance of the women as lived (in) bodies/ for grounding remembrance as (so often) embodied…."
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