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<\/a><\/p>\nLawrence says that she\u2019s trying to create dialogue about present issues in the daily lives of viewers.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think much of what I\u2019m trying to do with this work is to present some really interesting, engaging, and very sort of timely conversation,\u201d she says. \u201cThere are artists in the exhibition who are really looking at a number of contemporary issues that we\u2019re being faced with on a day-to-day basis, and they are providing us with a space to consider how that might impact us in our own personal lives.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The ideas of protection, refuge, and safety hearken back to our own recent experiences with COVID-19; Lawrence hopes to generate discussion on this topic.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cMaybe it offers a little bit of refuge, so there are some artworks that are dealing specifically with this idea of refuge and the reflecting on a lot of questions that might have come up during the pandemic with regards to what might we have learned during that experience,\u201d she says. \u201cWhat might have shifted our individual and collective understanding of how we feel protected, and what might protection be for some and not for others.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawrence says that artwork, while appearing purely aesthetic, may have the alternative function of creating experiential knowledge within the creator, as well as eliciting a response within the viewer.<\/p>\n \u201cWe can never know how someone responds to art, and so I think that\u2019s why we need to continuously offer a large variety of different art offerings. Even if something appears to have a solely aesthetic function, I think it could be argued that it does have an alternate function as well,\u201d she says. \u201cI would imagine that [for the artist] there was an enormous amount of learning and growing, of understanding of the material, of themselves, of their own environment.\u201d<\/p>\n Lawrence hopes that viewers will find meaning and inspiration in the different layers of an artwork, and this has a way of helping us reflect on our own experiences, our culture, and history.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cThey might all of a sudden feel inspired or feel moved, or feel that there is some kind of meaning in that object in so many different ways: the way in which it was made, the way in which it was presented, what they see in it, the cultural relationship they might have to it that allows somebody to gain some kind of understanding, to learn something new, to move them, to think differently about something,\u201d she says. \u201cI think it\u2019s really what propels us to keep looking at the ways in which art impacts our society and also the ways in which art can help us understand ourselves or understand history or reflect it back to us and provide us a new way of looking at things or feeling through objects or experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n