REM/A/INDER

As I focus the enlarger on your skin, eyes, arms, I remember how they felt. I think of the tenderness between us, those years ago. The fragments still exist. They remind me and remain with me.

I sift through screenshots and notes on old devices and the emotions feel fresh as ever. I repeat our words out loud — to no one.

This work is about the traces left behind when a relationship ends. The process of sharing these notes, images, and collected items is not an attempt to glorify or shame, rather to move forward. Leaving the scraps behind.

The messy end arrived, and it stuck around for months. We’d take turns hurling acid at each other with our tongues, we sat stubbornly silent, we would tenderly apologize. We said I love you and I hate you, vehemently, constantly, sometimes in the same breath. 

I think about you both all the time.
get some help, get better
I tried to help you.
But I couldn’t do it on my own
I hope I never ever see you again

What binds you to your relationships, and how can you move forward?

Rem/a/inder
Hannah Evans
Jennifer Stewart 
2020

Jennifer Stewart is a multi-disciplinary artist living in Ottawa, Canada. She graduated from the University of Ottawa with a BA: Specialization in Psychology in 2008, and from SPAO Portfolio Program in 2010. She is currently enrolled in the University of Ottawa, completing a B.Ed, graduating in 2021. Her work has been exhibited at the Ou Gallery in Duncan Bc, CONTACT Festival in Toronto ON, Shenkman Arts Centre and the Karsh-Masson Gallery in Ottawa. In 2018 she won an Arts Across Canada Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts and in 2015 she was awarded a Creation and Production grant from the City of Ottawa. Her work deals often with remnants of conversations, relationships and exploratory lens-based practices.

Hannah Evans is a multidisciplinary artist living in Ottawa, Canada. She is a graduate of the Photographic Arts and Production program at the School of the Photographic Arts: Ottawa (2017) and is currently completing a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the University of Ottawa. Evans'  work is concerned with narrative, identity and human connection. Previous exhibitions include “Aligned Duality” at Gallery 115 (University of Ottawa) “Not an Island, Nor a Home” at Exposure Gallery, and “Choose the Answer that Best Describes You” also at Exposure Gallery."