SANKAI JUKU

MEDIUM: CHARCOAL AND GRAPHITE ON PAPER, 8X11”.

“This piece is an ode to butoh, the avant-garde dance style that emerged in postwar Japan, and to our collective memory. An investigation on what it means to grieve, to fall apart, to love, and to remember.”

Kalli Amelya, 22, Ottawa - Canada ✯ IG: @kalli_amelya_art

“Kalli Amelya is a 22 year old Somali-Cambodian artist based in Ottawa, ON. Currently studying at the University of Ottawa for her BFA, she uses painting, photography, and drawing to explore themes of identity and the notion of bodily memory. She finds inspiration through the banalities of life and the subconscious, often expressed through a synthesis of abstraction and portraiture.”