Statement

I use my familiarity with displacement to work across drawing, painting, photography, photo-collage, ceramics, and textiles, it becomes an opportunity to disengage from the familiar, its cultural conventions its structures and materials, while also becoming aware of its ever-changing meanings in moving time and  diverse spaces. This shift opens up the probability to engage with the layers of new experiences and their unfamiliar spaces, the ambiguity of suspended, and shifting  forms and elements, giving me an excuse  to play with the notion of absolute  truths.

Biography

Seema Mehra is a Vancouver-based Indian born artist, she earned her B.F.A from the Emily Carr University of Art and Design in 2011. Seema was brought up in Mumbai, India, where she received her B.F.A in textile design from the J.J.School of Art, later also completing her professional training with the Helene Lefeaux School of Fashion Design in Vancouver, Canada,  consequently working in the apparel and couture industry in India and in Canada.

Seema’s work has been shown internationally, including: Franc Gallery (Vancouver), the Art Gallery of Calgary (and the BMB Gallery (Mumbai). Mehra is also the creator of Sharing Salt, a platform that makes collaborative public art with peers, art schools, and community. Sharing Salt has held residencies in Canada and in India.

Seema Mehra respectfully acknowledges that she is a guest on the unceded Indigenous territories of the ʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and sel̓íl̓witulh (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples.