GRIEF

What does it mean to grieve? Not just the loss of a person, but the loss of a promise, an identity, a version of the world we once believed in.

As part of my curatorial internship at Dalhousie Art Gallery, the seven-part online curatorial series explores grief through works from the Gallery’s permanent collection, tracing the emotional journey from shock and denial through anger, bargaining, guilt, and depression to final acceptance. Drawing on works by Goya, Harold Town, Fritz Brandtner, and more. This series asks what art can hold that words sometimes cannot.

To read the curatorial essays for each painting, you can click the image in this page. It is also available on my Substack.

Francisco Goya, Disparate Matrimonial (Matrimonial Folly) (1815-1823)