Winter 2016

folio

Issue 15 - Spring 2016 McGill Art + Design

folio magazine issue 15 - spring 2016

folio staff

Thea Brogan Hortense Chauvin Chelsea Dalzell Aaron Dishy Levi Easterbrooks Emily Enhorning Megan Jezewski Josh Marquis Ruby Ross Reagan Schoenholz Liv Silva Justine Tupe Kate Whiteway

about

Folio is a student-run visual art and design magazine that acts as an ongoing archive of McGill’s artistic community by providing a venue for student artists to showcase their work. It is published biannually.

Cover: Charlotte Zaininger Hunting Dogs in the Loire Valley Facing Page: Sarah Bentivegna human soup All contents Š the respective artists.

content

Moriah Stendel after you go to sleep and before you wake up Hayley Mortin amalgam 1 amalgam 2 Charlotte Zaininger New Island Aquarium BK Elli Slavitch High Four !

Viola Chen Fanmail Muse Siting Ni Statue of a Hand with Flowers Svava Tergesen Jamie Untitled Maren

Moriah Stendel after you go to sleep and before you wake up

Hayley Mortin amalgam 1 amalgam 2

Charlotte Zaininger New Island Aquarium BK

Elli Slavitch High Four !

Viola Chen Fanmail Muse

Siting Ni Statue of a Hand with Flowers

Svava Tergesen Jamie Untitled Maren

folio contributors

Sarah Bentivegna I’m originally from New England, and I’m in my second year at McGill in the faculty of Arts, studying French and German language. I have been creative my entire life, being surrounded by creative women throughout my childhood: my mother, a botanical artist, and my grandmother, an architect.

Moriah Stendel When sleep won’t arrive and restlessness churns, inspiration slaps you and you find yourself up at 5 am churning out compositions, thinking about nothing but pen and paper and ink, guided by the movement of one colour to the next, shapes, sizes, amorphous forms, art boiled down to the simple and flexible, mapping out a childhood imagination.

Elli Slavitch My work is inspired by the idea of skin, and its relationship to space. High Four ! explores the friendly and yet nauseating relationship that one can have with the skin they live in. Whether it be fleshy, flabby or frail, there’s something to be said about the way our skin moves in space, and the way it feels.

Viola Chen viola likes to doodle portraits of fuckboys and cultural theorists. her favourite kardashian is kendall.

Siting Ni After getting her bachelor degree in China, Siting Ni currently pursues her graduate study in Department of Chemistry, McGill University. Interested in the art and culture in Age of Enlightenment, Siting emphasizes elegance, delicacy and serenity in her own art, while embracing the modern realistic elements.

Hayley Mortin Hayley Mortin is a second year psychology student. She works at the library and likes to cut, paste and smush together the old discarded textbooks that don’t make it Svava Tergesen into the archives. She listens to a lot of Missy Elliott and is Photography is a way for me to explore the singularity really bad at keeping her room clean. of my relationships with people and to objects. Despite knowing someone intimately, or interacting with an Charlotte Zaininger object every day, there are aspects of our relationship Photography is spiritual in that it forces you to be present. that I’m unable to quantify. The unpredictable nature of It teaches you to sift through moments as they flood past film photography and the cyanotype process has helped and choose the most beautiful ones. The important ones. me reflect upon the fact that all I know continues to The ones you want to rescue. evade me.

I see photography as an intimate form of collecting. My Svava is a fourth year undergraduate student in Mathephoto collection acts as a diary of the people, places, and matics and World Cinemas. memories I cherish, and a good photo is as special to me as a vinyl record or precious stone. There is something compelling about an art form that consistently brings more joy to the artist than the viewer, and for that reason I encourage everyone to try photography . I can’t imagine myself ever stopping.

Thanks to the AUS Fine Arts Council and the Students’ Society of McGill University for their generous support.