Sheena Hoszko and Righteous Indignation

: So when you walk into Detention, the spare and affecting exhibition now on view at A Space, you’re struck that its powerful, important message is delivered not with a shout, but a whisper, according to Toronto Star. On one side of the room, Ting Chak simple, bleak line drawings — an unremarkable subdivision under an expanse of white sky, the angular shapes of tiny rooms — are pinned unceremoniously to the wall; adjacent to them, a dense stack of temporary fencing is compressed into a space that can barely contain it. As often as not, the result is preachy, pedantic and polarizing, reaffirming the righteous indignation of its maker and closing the door on any real dialogue. It a piece by Sheena Hoszko and even before you have the chance to read the little description on the nearby wall, you can feel its presence. Turn, though, to that little label. Barriers like this are heavy symbols of control and distilled here as a density of material they impose psychologically as well as physically. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.