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Michèle Pearson Clarke

Through her art, Michèle Pearson Clarke evokes thoughtful considerations of the personal and political. Her work deals largely with the everyday moments of ambiguity, melancholy and discomfort present in narratives related to longing and loss. By using archival, performative and process-oriented strategies, she investigates the personal and political possibilities afforded by sharing these experiences and the negative emotions that they produce like disappointment, loneliness, shame and grief.

Informed by her background in psychology and social work, she is interested in the tremendous vulnerability present in these affects and what this vulnerability has to offer us when we are transparent about these difficult and often stigmatized psychological and emotional states. She is a Trinidad-born artist who works in photography, film, video and installation. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally, including in exhibitions at The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (2018); ltd los angeles (2018); Studio XX, Montreal (2017); and Ryerson Image Centre, Toronto (2015); as well as in screenings at Ann Arbor Film Festival (2017); Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (2016); International Film Festival Rotterdam (2015); and International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2015).

She holds an MSW from the University of Toronto, and she received her MFA from Ryerson University in 2015, when she was awarded both the Ryerson University Board of Governors Leadership Award and Medal and the Ryerson Gold Medal for the Faculty of Communication + Design. From 2016-2017, Clarke was artist-in-residence at Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography, and she was the EDA Artist-in-Residence in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Toronto Scarborough for the Winter term 2018. Clarke’s writing has been published in Canadian Art and Transition Magazine, and she is currently teaching in the Documentary Media Studies program at Ryerson University.

 

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Rethinking how we hold space for grief and loss. | Michèle Pearson Clarke | TEDxPortofSpain 2018 Talks

 

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