REST IN POWER (solo)
The Gam Gallery | Vancouver, British Columbia | September 8 - 30, 2017
Text by Whitney Brennan | Photo credit: Byron Dauncey

Rest In Power is a body of work dedicated to twelve women from various cultural backgrounds whose murders have impacted Johal deeply. It is important to make the distinction between identifying the women’s passings as murders and not only death, to emphasize the inherent daily threat of violence faced by women across the world. The women featured in Rest in Power suffered domestic abuse, honour killing, and femicide. The title serves to restore their power in the afterlife, and in turn resurrect their memories in peace.