Sonali Menezes
Sonali Menezes is an interdisciplinary artist based in Hamilton, ON. She holds an Honours BA in Studio Art from the University of Guelph and is the youngest of triplets. Sonali’s work uses performance, video, zines, sculpture, printmaking, poetry and sometimes-exorbitant amounts of Manwich tomato sauce. Her work reflects her resistance to the histories of colonialism and racialization within which she is interwoven.
Our conversation was recorded in Tkaranto, on the traditional territories of the Haudenosaunee, Huron-Wendat, Anishinaabe, and Mississaugas of the New Credit First Nations.
Show Notes
Sonali’s work - https://sonalimenezes.com/
Glittering Magpie - https://www.etsy.com/ca/shop/GlitteringMagpiee
Kapit-Bisig Laban COVID Toronto - https://kapitbisig.ca/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3XgVigIXv/
Hamilton Feminist Zine Fair - https://takebackthenighthamilton.wordpress.com/2014/07/23/hamilton-feminist-zine-fair/
So You’re Anxious as Fuck - https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/776068094/digital-version-so-youre-anxious-as-fck?ref=shop_home_feat_1&bes=1
Zine club - contact Sonali to join - menesez.sonali@gmail.com the next meeting is via Zoom in August
Podcast Recommendation
Secret Life of Canada - https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-203-the-secret-life-of-canada/clip/15681810-s2-the-golden-boy
Thanks for listening to Hopping the Fence a podcast dedicated to the fringes of the “Canadian” art scene.
If you have an artist you would like to hear interviewed, would like to correct / fact check a past episode or would like to chat feel free to send me a message on Instagram @hoppingthefence or by email rebeccaecasalino@gmail.com
Thanks to OCAD University for their financial support, my project supervisor Amish Morrell for his advice and guidance, and Claudia Slogar Rick for all of her extra help. Original artwork for Hopping the Fence by Alex Gregory and original music by Jessica Price Eisner.