![]() ![]() The conversation will be about responding to the on-going tragedy of systemic sexual abuse. I emailed her some questions about her show, with an emphasis on learning how her assessment of the Catholic Church’s crimes - and the public response - has evolved over the last 20 years.ĭiscussion of interest: On March 26 at 1 p.m, at More Than Words, 242 East Berkeley Street (a five minute walk from the gallery), there will be an Artist Talk, “Images as Action and Reflection,” featuring Kessler, Kathy Dwyer, and S. Kessler teaches at Simmons University and Boston College and her work is in the permanent collections of the Cleveland Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the Teaching Museum of Lehigh University. The 2006 movie integrates still imagery and the voices of three survivors, Kathy, Phil, and Olan.įor Kessler, the show aims to make viewers uncomfortable, to stimulate much needed dialogue, to take a look at “the public and private spheres around the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church to bring us to the broader, common issues of sexual violation and abuse of power.” Be aware: the images and film may be triggering. The gallery is also presenting (available on headphones) an 8-minute edited version of Kessler’s 20-minute film Heart in the Wound, which can be seen in full on her website. Lisa Kessler‘s powerful exhibition Heart in the Wound (at Boston’s Howard Yezerski Gallery through March 26) is the only collection of still photographs that documents the revelations of the church’s crimes by looking deeply at the church, the protests, and the survivors. These commentators and artists view it as a call for recommitment, for expanding our understanding of how the behavior of the Catholic Church, particularly its continuing cover-up of its maleficence, reflects larger systems of patriarchal repression and domestic violence throughout society. This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Boston Globe’s expose of clergy abuse, and for some the sober occasion serves as more than an invitation for reflection or self-congratulation. ![]()
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