multidisciplinary artist
Jasmine Canaviri is an interdisciplinary artist whose practice engages with the love and labour that goes into textiles, ceramics, and the handmade as a way of self-healing. She’s inspired by those around her, both objects and people, alongside her lived experience, and trauma. Canaviri recently completed her Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts at York University. While there, she was a recipient of a Canada Graduate Scholarship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC-M). As of 2023, she is a recipient of an OAC Craft Projects grant to fund her current work, Enmeshment: as we become one, we live separate lives (nosotras somos una) which explores textile experimentation, trauma, and her mixed identity.
trying to understand
trying to understand (2018-2024) is a video soundscape that takes a past sound sampling and combines it with the unintended consequences of my current work, Enmeshment (2023-2024). Both of these pieces, past and present, explore my identity as a Canadian with Bolivian heritage. As a half-latinx person who was raised in a multicultural city, connecting to my Spanish side has always been difficult. This work explores what it means to try and understand but in small fragments and always at a distance – it combines familiar sounds from my surroundings and household with thoughts and feelings written in Spanglish.