This is an archived event from Culture Days 2020.
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Making Spaces, Sur Gallery 2020 Mentorship Exhibition
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Digital & new media Fibre & textile arts Film & video Museum Sculpture & installationDate and time
Location
Sur Gallery
Old Toronto, ON
Directions: Visit suit #100.
Access
Free.
Offered in English and Spanish.
Wheelchair accessible and has gender-neutral washrooms.
About
Sur Gallery reopens on October 1st, 2020 with the 2020 Mentorship Exhibition Making Spaces.
Join us for the Online Opening here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/making-spaces-sur-gallery-2020-mentorship-exhibition-tickets-120425416663
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
What defines or makes a space? With no fixed answer to this question, the exhibition Making Spaces navigates concepts of space, place and site through personal-collective experiences, in order to reflect on how we make spaces and the narratives that emerge. The exhibition features textile, mixed media and architectural installations by emerging artists Ana Luisa Bernárdez Notz, denirée isabel, Michelle Peraza, Camila Salcedo, and Aline Setton. The imagery used by these artist’s references specific landscapes and histories, while exploring a sense of home and belonging. Offering moments of action and contemplation, the works include personal stories of migration, revealing the effects of colonial histories in the Americas. Within the exhibition, portraiture acts as a channel to examine identity through familial lineage, while the usage of facial photo filters broadens the notion by linking them to “identification” preferences.
Making Spaces in its virtual platform and its on-site version at Sur Gallery is about creating safe spaces of self-reflection as we cope with dislocation, isolation, and the ongoing task to find, make and carry home within us, a burden many of us bear within diasporas.
Curated by Karina Roman Justo.
Funded by Canadian Heritage through its Community Support, Multiculturalism, and Anti-Racism Initiatives Program Projects component.
ABOUT THE MENTORSHIP PROGRAM
This exhibition is the culmination of a 10-month Mentorship Program for emerging Latin American artists at Sur Gallery in order to support and build strong careers in the arts. Participants were able to focus on the development of their practices through a series of workshops, on-site visits and networking opportunities.
Links
- Register Here eventbrite.ca
- Online Exhibition surgalleryvirtual.ca
Organizer
Sur Gallery
Sur Gallery is Toronto's first gallery space dedicated to the exhibition and critical engagement of contemporary Latin American Art and is a project of LACAP.