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Sophie Jodoin draws on, and through, her life. The Montreal artist is a virtuoso drawer who has, for the last 25 years, produced bodies of work, most often Conté on Mylar, that have carefully delineated the intensities of the human condition. Much of her work has used the body as its subject, culminating in an exhibition at Battat Contemporary in 2011 called "I felt a cleaving in my mind." The title for the show was also a scan of the inside of her head. The body had become too loaded and so she effected what she called "its voluntary absence. I had done a lot of melodramatic and violent work and I didn't want to do thatanymore." In its place, she settled on an array of more neutral subjects that included "an architecture of buildings and furniture and...