01/28/2026
The exhibit 'Grounding: States of Gender' at the artLAB Gallery, UWO concludes tomorrow January 29.
AVAILABLE TOURS:
TODAY: the artist Gita Hashemi will offer a tour in FARSI for anyone interested in discussing the issues raised by the exhibition in that language.
📆 Wednesday January 28
🕑 4:30-5:30 pm
TOMORROW: the artist Gita Hashemi will give a talk
📆 Thursday, January 29
🕑 7pm
📍Western University, WIRB 1170
An in-person curatorial tour will follow in the artLAB Gallery.
Gita Hashemi (https://gitaha.net) is a refugee, artist, curator, and writer who works from T’karonto, the “Dish with One Spoon” wampum belt territory, the land of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit. She lives near Wonscotonach River. Her home in Shiraz was near Khoshk River. She works in visual, media and performance art, digital and net art, and language-based art including live embodied writing, as well as in curation and publishing. She has created and/or curated many transdisciplinary, generative, collaborative, and multi-platform projects. She is currently working on a new expanded book, Fugitive Transmissions: Tales of Enduring Transience, forthcoming in 2027 from SubversivePress. Her award-winning performance and installation project Grounding: States of Gender is currently on exhibit at the artLAB at Western University, January 8 – 29 (https://www.uwo.ca/visarts/artlab/upcoming/index.html )
