A Path in the Garden: A Conversation between Yam Lau and Susan Rowe Harrison
model, garden, mirror Yam Lau: Let us recall the lovely afternoon when we viewed the delicate model you made for the present exhibition at the YYZ Artists’ Outlet. You had casually placed the model (of a garden?) in a garden, amidst the plants at the…
Weather Report: Susan Rowe Harrison
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 2022 OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 6:00 – 8:00 PM The climate crisis is overwhelming—the problem is so huge that we struggle to understand its effects and outcomes on everyone in every place in the world. With a nod…
Calling Through the Trees: Shelley Niro
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 2022 OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 6:00 – 8:00 PM Image credit: Shelley Niro, Hunger, 2008. Still courtesy of V-Tape. Curated by Franchesca Hebert-Spence Shelley Niro’s work has long been lauded for her pops of humour, revisioning…
Words Have Wings: Asma Sultana
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 2022 OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 6:00 – 8:00 PM “Words have wings” is an imagined expression for the lost innocence deeply rooted in my culture of silence and misrepresentation. It is part of a journey probing my identity…
The Shadow of Your Smile by Alanna Thain
Desire lines are everyday traces that mark where bodies wander at will. Their pragmatic urgency might trample a grassy path that shortcuts across a park; over time they become their own contagious attractors, through repetition. But it is that first impulse to step off the…
10 Notes on Spirit Berries by Zoe Imani Sharpe
CEDAR EVE | SPIRIT BERRIES Image courtesy of YYZ. 10 Notes on Spirit Berries By Zoe Imani Sharpe In an interview with Yedda Morrison, poet Myung Mi Kim explains her thinking on poetic process: “[there is] always some kind of invisible, constant, millisecond-by-millisecond…
CEDAR EVE : Spirit Berries
CEDAR EVE | SPIRIT BERRIES Image courtesy of YYZ. A new mural for our YYZ Lending Library by Cedar Eve for the 2021-2022 programming year. This Mural is inspired by my childhood memories of picking berries and swimming on Manitoulin Island. A lot of those…