Michelle
Caron-
Pawlowsky
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Finishing Holds questions the transformation of rituals and asks what forms a modern ritual can take. This project considers personal experiences with grief and reimagines the mourning ritual through the lens of pro-wrestling, drawing on the history of public combat as an ancient commemorative funeral ceremony. The world of pro-wrestling is rife with intimacies, moments of care, contradictions, rituals, negotiations of reality, and exaggerated displays of pain. Its environment asks you to constantly think about the fragility of the body, the spectacle of life and death, and the fallibility of the hero figure.