The Window Box Gallery
June 03/22- August 22
An Installation By Josephine Guan
The Artist is Napping
Artist Statement
My brain is sometimes leaky – sometimes foggy. That means constantly
negotiating how much I do in a day. I survived my way through grad
school propped up by the central premise of Tricia Hersey’s The Nap Ministry:
that rest is a tool for liberation and healing.
I resist the urge to perform busyness and resist testing the limits of
my body by napping. I ask for a collective slowing down so that I can
keep up on things that matter.
This piece is part of a master’s research project investigating the
lived experience of acquired brain injury.
Artist Bio.
Josephine Guan is a Chinese-Canadian artist and researcher. She is interested in
cultural understandings of health and disability and knowledge that
stems from lived experience. She has recently extended that practice
into documenting the lived experience of others through different
modes of storytelling for awareness and change. Her work often takes
form as multi-media and assemblage.
Her recent master’s research project is an exploration into the
recovery process for acquired brain injury survivors as told through
postcard drawings. She is a recent graduate of the Inclusive Design
masters program at OCAD University and is working as a research
assistant in the Department of Aging, Health, and Society at McMaster
University.