Browsing Fine Arts by Supervisor "Thompson, Jessica"
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1b, black legs, 52"
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)1b, black legs, 52” is an effort to reconcile with history. Through the recontextualization of black pornographic images, this exhibition serves as a re-imagining of what black women’s futures could be. By creating images ... -
Care Packages
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-25)This thesis illuminates the importance of care between individuals and within society. The exhibition, entitled Care Packages, uses installation and sculpture to encourage collective care and support. Through monumental ... -
The Chicken Is Just Dead First
(University of Waterloo, 2021-04-30)My thesis exhibition encapsulates my lived experience as a Black woman from Barbados who moved to Guelph, Ontario at eighteen. My studio and artistic research is focused on the ways that food, ritual, hair, and colonialism ... -
Cul-de-sac Island
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-13)Cul-de-sac Island is a multimedia installation that combines personal research, lens-based strategies and performative re-enactments to camera that engage in a self-reflective investigation of identity, place and territory. ... -
Put a finger down if you've ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-27)Put a finger down if you’ve ever been personally victimized by social media algorithms is a collection of critical reflections on embedded social media microaggressions reflecting acts of racism, body shaming, the glorification ... -
Search Party
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-17)Search Party is an installation and video exhibition that explores my identity—how it is constructed and consumed, and how representations of landscapes and discourses of ‘Canadiana’ play in its formation. Since moving ... -
shrimpychip YouTube
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-22)shrimpychip YouTube is a series of YouTube videos that explore the ways in which digital intimacy and capitalism intersect. The performances, designed for YouTube, strategically exploit emotional responses to the body, the ...