You asked, we listened! Join Nia Centre for the Arts and the Ryerson Image Centre for a free, private tour of The Way She Looks: A History of Female Gazes in African Portraiture, followed by Curators in Conversation: Sandrine Colard with Julie Crooks - open to all ages. Spots are limited - RSVP today!
ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Drawn from the extraordinary holdings of The Walther Collection, The Way She Looks revisits the history of African photographic portraiture through the perspectives of women, both as sitters and photographers. Spanning the beginnings of colonial photography on the continent to the present day, the exhibition features contemporary works by female artists, including Yto Barrada, Jodi Bieber, Lebohang Kganye, Zanele Muholi, Grace Ndiritu, and Nontsikelelo “Lolo” Veleko alongside 1950s studio portraits by such important historical figures as Malick Sidibé and Seydou Keïta, and nineteenth-century prints, cartes de visite, postcards, and albums.
Image Caption: A. C. Gomes & Sons, Natives [sic] Hair Dressing, Zanzibar, Tanzania, late 19th century, collodion printed-out print. Courtesy of The Walther Collection and Stevenson, Cape Town and Johannesburg
Location: Ryerson Image Centre, 33 Gould Street, Toronto, ON
Time: 5:30p - 8:30p
FREE with RSVP here
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