INTO THE FOLDS
Into the Folds is a studio practice managed by Jazmin Gareau, granddaughter of Karen and Gabrielle, daughter of Sandra, sister to Kia. In service to care, time, snails, and systems of management. Currently, this studio is focused on the project Empathetic Bloat, curious about the intersection between illness and the mechanized body, with emphasis on women’s reproductive health care, drawing from personal learnings of her family's transgenerational experience with ovarian cancer. This project began gestation in 2018, in the MFA program at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since graduating from the program in December 2020, development of Empathetic Bloat continues to crawl at a snails pace, forming works in smaller subsections, magnifying the intricacies, nuance and complexities that intersect between illness and care. Continuing to navigate the very tiny spaces between velcro-
the snails need misting
Into the Folds is a studio practice managed by Jazmin Gareau, granddaughter of Karen and Gabrielle, daughter of Sandra, sister to Kia. In service to care, time, snails, and systems of management. Currently, this studio is focused on the project Empathetic Bloat, curious about the intersection between illness and the mechanized body, with emphasis on women’s reproductive health care, drawing from personal learnings of her family's transgenerational experience with ovarian cancer. This project began gestation in 2018, in the MFA program at Goldsmiths, University of London. Since graduating from the program in December 2020, development of Empathetic Bloat continues to crawl at a snails pace, forming works in smaller subsections, magnifying the intricacies, nuance and complexities that intersect between illness and care. Continuing to navigate the very tiny spaces between velcro-
the snails need misting
the snails need misting