Public Program
Guest Curator - UQO Université UQAM à Outaouais
In opening an aperture, one allows an image to form; a tool of vision which draws clarity from scattered beams of light. The onslaught we have experienced over the past two years, has blurred our vision, urging us to be in search of a new opening ever since. The works in this exhibition position the body at the center of this search: whether they are bodies who resist apartheid systems, are dissected for medical research, or are in states of constant movement; these bodies constitute a crowd to be gathered in the gallery space of UQO.
By joining this crowd, the public program brings together artists and scholars Ella Den Elzen, Paul Lofeodo, Florencia Sosa Rey and Assiyah Jamilla Touré, who will guide us through a reading of the body as a structure which oscillates between the social and political landscapes in which we exist.
Perhaps it is through this gathering, which finds its essence in collectivity, that we might pierce the haze, and produce tools of vision by opening an aperture where our bodies move on the line that forms its diameter.
Text by Joyce Joumaa
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