Intimate Encounters: Selections from Gifts of Madness

Still of Jinian Raine Harwig, Vasive, 2022, 16mm, 2 minutes 21 seconds. Description: A face is brightly lit, with the background in complete shadow. Facial features stand out in the high key lighting.

Intimate Encounters:
Selections from Gifts of Madness
Galley Gachet Community Screen outside 9 W Hastings St, Vancouver
November 14th to January 24th

Intimate Encounters is an inquiry into the works of Jinian Raine Harwig, Gladys Lou, and Vicente Ortiz Cortez whose films will be screened on Gallery Gachet’s community screen. The films were selected from the Penticton Art Gallery’s Gifts of Madness 2024 exhibition and are curated together into a micro-shorts programme that meditates on the surveillance of bodies in queer, mad and altered states. The artists explore shifting consciousness through multiple mediums such as 16mm analogue cinema, video performance and gif art.

In bending time and space through the cinematic mediums, the films aim to create their own dialogue surrounding mental health justice, one that resists the prescribed borders of medicinal intimacy and uplifts the knowledge contained within non-linear dreamscapes and community care.  

Sophia Santos English
Gallery Associate/Curatorial Assistant