© Laura Ohio, Like a Tongue Knows the Mouth (2024).
Laura Ohio
Like a Tongue Knows a Mouth
From April 23 to June 13, 2026
In the midst of grappling with her father’s death, a freeway fire causes a city-wide traffic jam, and Ohio is led to follow an elderly woman through downtown Los Angeles in the rain. Composed mainly of cellphone footage shot at indirect angles or remediated by mirrors and lenses, Laura Ohio’s short film Like a Tongue Knows a Mouth is a fractured narrative regarding grief’s coping and the loom of absence.
Laura Ohio (1991) works across sculpture, film, and performance to engage personal and historical archives, the physical body, and architectural spaces. Her work confronts the body's entanglement in systems of enclosure and the desire for self-determination. Ohio holds an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Her work has been exhibited and screened internationally and across Canada at Alchemy Film and Moving Image Festival (Scotland), BIDEODROMO International Experimental Film and Video Festival (Spain), The Pornfilmfestival Berlin (Germany), Automata, Baxter St at Camera Club of New York, Film Diary NYC, Iowa City International Documentary Film Festival (USA), Antimatter Media Art, Mile Zero Dance, Latitude 53 and Winnipeg Underground Film Festival (Canada). She is currently living and working between Los Angeles (California) and Edmonton (Alberta).
Dazibao thanks the artist for her generous collaboration as well as its advisory committee for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
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