SKIN DEEP:(RE)IMAGING THE PORTRAIT
Exhibition Dates: March 19 – April 1, 2015
Opening Reception: March 19, 7:00 – 11:00 pm
Artist Presentations/Panel: March 21, 3:00 – 6:00 pm
Nia Centre for the Arts is a Toronto-based not-for-profit organization that supports, showcases and promotes an appreciation of arts from across the African diaspora. We create opportunities for young people to develop healthy identities and for communities to enhance their creative capabilities. Our programming includes facilitation training, exhibitions,mentorship and culturally-specific arts experiences.
2015 EXPOSED Exhibition is Nia Centre's annual visual arts exhibition designed to share our unique experiences within the various Afro-diaspora communities in the GTA and abroad through the power of visual arts.
This exhibition presents photographic and video portraits by artists addressing the visualization of presence and its relationship to various notions of representation, subjectivity and the body. Each artist brings a diverse point of view and critical eye, interrogating the place and positioning of contemporary individuals and historical figures within the public sphere as activated through the camera’s lens. From empowering assertions of Black female being within the iconic Canadian landscape, insightful ruminations on loss explored through minimalism and disembodiment, to markings of individuality within the faceless urban realm, the artists re-imagine regimes of the image away from fixed inscriptions of race, gender, class and corporeality. Complex, poetic and celebratory, together their work engages and encourages new ways of knowing and recognizing the visual, the visible and the viewed.
Featuring Artworks by:
Yannick Anton
Ella Cooper
Anthony Gebrehiwot
Jah Grey
Carolyn Roberts
Kara Springer
Curated by Pamela Edmonds
Image Credit: Carolyn Roberts, Untitled (from Convenience series), 2014, C-Print. Courtesy of the Artist
Location: Project Gallery, 1109 Queen St E, Toronto, ON
Time: 7:00pm
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