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With Absence and Other Things - Kim Foster Yardley | ARTLECTURE
  • With Absence and Other Things - Kim Foster Yardley
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Kim Foster Yardley explores how materialities and methods can simultaneously visualize human trauma and resilience as they share space due to hardship. As a Black woman in Cape Town, South Africa, Kim grew up steeped in segregation, only realizing the extent to which this experience had shaped her sense of self and reality upon immigrating to Toronto. Working at the intersection of art and psychology allows her to create expressive portraits that reflect personal encounters with socio-political issues such as identity, inequity, and mental health.

     Interested in how different aspects of one's face can reveal, shield, or confront one's fears, hopes, and needs, she utilizes the gaze, darkening of features, and abstraction of scale to express personal struggles with mental health and reflect on the impact of racial trauma. Balancing each painting to evoke fragility and strength, Kim employs layering and the power of color to express autobiographical states of melancholy and vulnerability amidst new surroundings while inviting the viewer to engage in a dialogue with the ambiguity and commonalities of personhood.

  Accepted  2023-08-20 13:43

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Contacts/Email : WITH ABSENCE AND OTHER THINGS AUG 23 - SEP 2, 2023 | KIM FOSTER YARDLEY Opening Reception: Saturday, Aug 26, 2 - 5 PM Artist Talk: Sunday, Aug 27, 2 - 3 PM..


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Contacts/Email : WITH ABSENCE AND OTHER THINGS AUG 23 - SEP 2, 2023 | KIM FOSTER YARDLEY Opening Reception: Saturday, Aug 26, 2 - 5 PM Artist Talk: Sunday, Aug 27, 2 - 3 PM