Futures exhibition artist talks resilience, pain at Sarnia gallery visit

They’re meant to evoke thoughts about evolution, adaptation, and resilience of the marginalized in dire circumstances. But for Rajni Perera, paintings from her Traveller series also evoke something more visceral. “I mostly feel body pain when I look at these,” said the Toronto-based artist, whose travelling McMichael Canadian Art Collection exhibition, Futures – including works from Travellers and other series – recently opened at Sarnia’s Judith and Norman A