Julie Oh: Very Big Forces by Simon Fuh
In my experience, there’s a strange thing that happens when you start collecting rocks: relatively quickly, the world becomes fractal. Each rock betrays the enormity of the scene behind it just asmuch as it reaffirms its uniqueness. The puckered holes, rounded edges, pores and sheen…
Take me Back to Venus: La Pupila
A mural project on view from Sept. 30, 2023 – July 31, 2024 Opening: Sept. 29, 6PM – 8PM This mural is for women, for the tired days of being always alert, in a constant fight of our rights and still having more chances to…
Tides: Julie Oh
Exhibition dates: Sept. 30 – Dec. 16, 2023 Opening: Sept 29, 6PM – 8PM Tides brings together a series of found objects related to change and navigation — slow and fast, seasonal and episodic. Bricks that wash up on shore, transformed from sturdy building blocks…
Processing Racism Table: Theo Jean Cuthand
Exhibition dates: Sept. 30 – Dec. 16, 2023 Opening: Sept. 29, 6PM – 8PM Through conversations with several Indigenous people who have lived in Saskatchewan, Cuthand follows the common thread of experiences with anti-Indigenous racism. Saskatchewan has an Indigenous population of 13.5%. Cuthand discovers…
Arrivals and Departures: Heather Nicol
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time TS Elliot, excerpt from The Four Quartets The artists in Arrivals and Departures examine transitional moments, from…
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…