Matrilineal Hauntings

The exhibition Matrilineal Hauntings features the ceramic interventions of Kathy Kranias. Curated by Lera Kotsyuba, the exhibition has toured to Schneider Haus Museum National Historic Site (May 25-Sept 2, 2024) and was reviewed by Gil McElroy in ESPACE Art Actuel. Initially exhibited in 2022 at 43 Queen’s Park Crescent East in Toronto, Kranias’ ceramic interventions acknowledged the revenant of colonialism that haunted the architecture of a once glorious Upper Canadian home in Toronto. Drawing on Kranias’s family history in her matrilineal line, the exhibition bridges generations of women through architecture as a site of home, status, and violence, foregrounding the “tension between quiet violence and injustice” that parallels our current times. Catalogue available at Gardiner Museum Shop (link).