Palimptexts: Invisibilization and Acts of Surfacing

Palimptexts presents aspects of our culture that are unacknowledged and invisibilized. Rena del Pieve Gobbi transfers sensual gestures to silk to create photographs that are metaphors for healing from sexual trauma. Utilizing multimedia, Karen Moe and Michael Maclean address the complicity between violence waged against the Mexican people and drug consumption in postindustrial nations. Printing onto clothing and domestic textiles, Bobbi Sue Smith documents the violence of unacknowledged experiences at Vancouver’s margins. Janet Sadel combines photography and text depicting the convoluted messages of our media-saturated environment.