hannah bullock

a low hum, a strong gale, my MFA thesis exhibition, was displayed at Gales Gallery at York University. The exhibition delves into my lived experience with chronic pain and illness. The intent of this body of work is to reconstruct my own practice in order to best accommodate my own access needs. Through a low hum, a strong gale I am calling into question what it means to create a body of work that outwardly rejects the idea that to make valuable art, I must ‘suffer for it’. The process of creating the exhibition included working interdependently with others to help materialize my ideas, as well as building upon tasks—primarily breathing—that I can perform from bed when I’m unwell. This body of work wrestles with my embodied experience of invisible illness and internalized ableism. My material explorations aim to make visible the invisible—documenting the physical limitations that are a result of my pain, rather than searching for evidence of its existence.