Jaswant Guzder
Subtitle: navigating East West hybridities
By: editing, Victoria LeBlanc
Contributors: LeBlanc, Victoria, 1949- editor
Publisher: Visual Arts Centre, McClure Gallery
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Montréal
Language: eng
Number of pages: 68
ISBN-13: 9781926492094
Subjects: Canadian Painting; Exhibitions
Other titles: Navigating East West hybridities
Description: Employing the simplest of means, such as ink, watercolour, brushes and paper, Jaswant Guzder's work flows from her clinical work with refugees who have suffered displacement, loss and trauma. Their plight and stories of migration, however, are also hers. A child of South Asian parents, she understands first hand the diasporic struggle to belong, the quest for identity and the urgent need to define home. The artist creates in series and a work may take a month, a week or a day. Such intense immersion encourages free association, plummeting the artist into a place where memory and experience converse. Using a wide range of formats, Guzder navigates themes of exile, displacement and vulnerability, mining a wealth of cultural ideas and memories in the search for a transcultural identity. 00Exhibition: McClure Gallery, Kitchener, Canada (3.6.-23.6.2016).
Notes: Catalogue of an exhibition held at the McClure Gallery, Montréal, Québec from June 3-23, 2016.

Text in English and French.