Carmela Laganse
Carmela Laganse’s practice is engaged with the intersections of embodied experience and perception as well as exploring the agency and ideologies embedded in objects. Her work explores the effects of colonialism and examines how it contributes to material culture and identity. Working in a variety of media, she often builds interactive work or portable, modular environments that playfully and critically integrate physical, emotional, ritualistic, and intellectual processes through an intersectional lens.
Laganse received an MFA from Ohio University and a BFA from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg and is an Associate Professor in the School of the Arts at McMaster University. She has exhibited nationally and internationally since 2005. Recent exhibitions include Hamilton Now, Object at the Art Gallery of Hamilton, and Spread at the Art Gallery of Guelph, ON.
