Jennifer Long
Reflecting on the shifting and uncanny experience of parenthood, Long photographs herself and her children over the years. Themes of gender and memory emerge in her depictions of quiet moments and subtle gestures. Poses and expressions change in the journey through childhood to adolescence, and echo through the artist and her two daughters.
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Untitled from Caesura, 2021
Untitled from Caesura, 2021
Untitled from Caesura, 2019
Untitled from Caesura, 2020
Research, 2022
Process images, 2021
Process images, 2021
Untitled from Caesura, 2019-21
Jennifer Long is a Canadian artist, curator, and arts administrator. Her artwork has been exhibited nationally and internationally at galleries including Centre Culturel Calouste Gulbenkian (FR), Klondike Institute of Art and Culture (CA), and La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse (CA). Long’s practice has been included in numerous publications, most recently Mothers, Mothering, and Covid-19: Dispatches from a Pandemic (Demeter Press, 2022), BlackFlash Magazine (2021), and Mothers’ Day (Artist Residency In Motherhood, 2020). In support of her artwork, she has received grants from the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council, and Canada Council for The Arts.
Through a Feminist lens, Long works with constructed narratives that are inspired by the quiet moments in women’s lives where seemingly nothing (and everything) occurs. She is especially interested in the complex emotions that underlie these mundane points in time. Themes of vulnerability, growth, community, and motherhood are explored within her practice as she examines daily life and her rituals within it.