Manjot Pabla

Pierce is about darkness - how it creates isolation and how it brings forth emotional thoughts. The darkness represents multiple psychologically impacting forces: trauma, existential crises, dissociation, or other personal interpretations on part of the viewer. The pitch-black space then becomes a visualised extension of the mind as the body becomes invisible, separating the mental and physical form. This is the place where pain is processed, understood, and accepted. Though my animation is about exploring acknowledgement of pain, the title calls to the moment just before it starts: the pain’s origin. 

Manjot Pabla is currently in the final year of the joint Art & Art History program at the University of Toronto and Sheridan College. Manjot primarily works in printmaking and design, but the artist is also interested in animation. Manjot explores the themes of pain and suffering in the works, specifically dealing with the philosophical and psychological impact that suffering creates. Most of the artist’s works deal with internalised conflicts between the mind and the body.