North American and international artists will
present a diversity of lens-based projects in museums, galleries,
and public spaces across Toronto
TORONTO, April 11, 2019 /PRNewswire/ - Today, the
Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival announced the full program
for the 23rd edition of the city-wide event spanning the
month of May, including its Core Programming of 23
Primary Exhibitions and 15 Public
Installations. Influential American artist
Carrie Mae Weems will
headline this year's Festival with an exhibition in five parts
sited at distinct locations across the city, representing her
first solo exhibition in Canada. In addition to Weems, a
selection of outstanding North American and international
lens-based artists will present an array of projects in museums,
galleries, and public spaces across Toronto.
Full details are now available on the CONTACT website. The
Festival is free and open to the public, with some exceptions at
major museums.
Artists featured in the Primary Exhibitions
include: Arnait Video Collective, Deanna Bowen, Taysir Batniji, Moyra
Davey, Erika DeFreitas,
Dornith Doherty, Beatrice Gibson,
T.M. Glass, Mike Hoolboom and Jorge
Lozano, Ayana V.
Jackson, Geoffrey
James, Morris
Lum, Annette Mangaard,
Meryl McMaster,
Manar Moursi, Nadia Myre, Jacqueline Hoàng
Nguyễn, PA System, Louie Palu, Krista Belle Stewart, Alien Agencies
Collective, Michael Tsegaye, Hajra Waheed,
Elaine Whittaker, Nevet Yitzhak, and Jude Abu Zaineh.
Click here for further information on these
artists' exhibitions.
Artists featured in Public Installations include Nadia Belerique, Susan
Dobson, Peter Funch,
Esther Hovers,
Sanaz Mazinani, Zinnia Naqvi,
Mario Pfeifer, Bianca Salvo, Sputnik
Photos, Nadine Stijns, Carmen Winant, and Elizabeth Zvonar. Click here for
further information on these artists' installations.
"The range of artists that we have gathered for this year's
edition of CONTACT truly span the globe and bring insights and
observations on so many different cultural, political, and
environmental issues. The entire CONTACT team is honoured to have
such a diversity of talent on view in Toronto this May, and we thank our many
partners and supporters for making all of this possible," said
CONTACT Executive Director Darcy
Killeen.
Beyond its Core Exhibitions,
CONTACT includes Featured and Open Call
Exhibitions that present a range of works by artists at
leading galleries and alternative spaces across the city.
CONTACT also organizes and co-presents a wide
range of Programs including a book fair, book dummy reviews,
lectures, panels and workshops appealing to a wide audience.
Click through for further information on Featured and Open Call
Exhibitions, and on Public Programs.
Some highlights of the 2019 Scotiabank CONTACT Photography
Festival:
Carrie Mae Weems
Weems'
work will be presented in two gallery exhibitions and three major
public art installations in downtown Toronto:
Blending the Blues – CONTACT Gallery, 80
Spadina Ave., #205. May 1 –
July 27
Opening: Friday, May 3, 6 – 9
p.m.
The CONTACT Gallery will display an array of Weems' pivotal
early and recent photographic works, including the series All
the Boys (2016), which responds to the recent spate of
killings of young African American men.
Heave – Justina M.
Barnicke Gallery, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, 7 Hart House Circle.
May 4 – July
27
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 4, 4 – 5 p.m., Daniels Building, 1 Spadina Cr., Purchase
tickets here.
Opening: Saturday, May 4, 6 – 8
p.m.
Heave (2018) combines photography, video, news media
samplings, and ephemera to probe the devastating effects of
violence in our life and times.
Slow Fade to Black – Metro Hall, King
St. W at John St. May 1 –
June 4
In a selection of images from her series Slow Fade to
Black (2010), Weems reclaims images of historically
significant black women singers of the last century whose legacies
appear to fade as time elapses.
Scenes & Take – TIFF Bell Lightbox,
corner of Widmer and King St., May 1
– 31
Two works from Weems' 2016 series Scenes & Take
underscore the emergence of a shift in the cultural landscape where
her "muse" character inhabits the sets of contemporary television
shows featuring black female leads and black writers and
producers.
Anointed – 460 King St. W. April 24 – September 6
Anointed (2017) features an image of Mary J. Blige, who Weems photographed
for W's Art Issue shortly after the Grammy
award-winning singer's breakout performance in the film
Mudbound.
Scotiabank Photography Award: Moyra Davey
Ryerson Image Centre, 33
Gould Street. May 1 – August 4
Artist Talk: Ryerson University
School of Image Arts, 122 Bond St., rm. IMA-307 (3rd
fl.), Wednesday, May 8, 7 p.m.
This first survey exhibition celebrates the work of Toronto-born artist Moyra Davey, winner of the 2018 Scotiabank
Photography Award. Based in New
York, she is recognized internationally for her photographs,
videos, writings and artist books. The exhibition includes
portraiture, still life and photographs of subway scenes, along
with a suite of Davey's films which interweave subjective
narratives with the texts and lives of her influences, such as
Mary Wollstonecraft, Sigmund Freud, Jean
Genet and Pierre Vallières.
Meryl McMaster, As Immense
as the Sky
Ryerson Image Centre, University
Gallery, 33 Gould St. May 1–August 4
Artist Talk: Wednesday, June 5, 7 p.m.
As Immense as the Sky is a photographic series of
performative self-portraits set in specific landscapes across
Canada where Ottawa-based artist
Meryl McMaster examines the
overlapping cultures and histories—public and private, familial and
non-familial—of both her Indigenous and European ancestors.
Carmen Winant,
XYZ-SOB-ABC
Billboards on Lansdowne Ave. at Dundas
St. W. and College St. and across Canada May 1 – 31
Artist Talk: Ryerson University School of Image Arts,
122 Bond St., room IMA-307 (3rd fl.). Friday, May 3, 5
p.m.
Performance and talk: Women and Photobooks Symposium, Art
Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas
Street W. Saturday, May 4,
11 a.m. – 5
p.m.
Book Signing: CONTACT Photobook Fair, Stephen Bulger
Gallery, 1356 Dundas St. W.
Sunday, May 5, 1 p.m.
Winant will sign
copies of her critically acclaimed Carmen Winant: My Birth
(2018).
American artist and writer Carmen
Winant's work will be featured on four billboards in
Toronto and 14 billboards across
Canada. In a series titled XYZ-SOB-ABC (2019) Winant
explores representations of women through collage, mixed media, and
installation. Other Canadian billboard locations include:
Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Saskatoon, Vancouver, and Winnipeg.
Arnait Video Productions, Arnait Ikajurtigiit: Women
Helping Each Other
Art Gallery of York University, 8 Accolade East Building,
York University, 4700 Keele St.
April 17 – June 23
Opening: Thursday, April 17, 6 – 9 p.m.
Artist Talk: The Commons, 401 Richmond St. W. Suite
440. Friday, April 18, 12 –
2 p.m.
Arnait Video Productions is a dynamic collective of women
filmmakers from the Arctic whose films speak directly to the lives
of its Inuit and non-Inuit members. Presenting work of Arnait over
three decades, this exhibition offers a model for learning by
doing. Including films, objects, and photos, it shows how Inuit
life continues to change and adapt in reaction to Western
influences from the exceptional perspective of women of
Igloolik.
Ayana V. Jackson,
Fissure
Campbell House Museum, 160 Queen St. W.
May 1 – June 2
Reception and Artist Talk: Friday,
May 2, 6 – 8 p.m.
Employing her own body, Ayana V.
Jackson deconstructs racial and gender stereotypes to create
contemporary portraits laced with historical allusions. Deeply
influenced by her own fluid identity and her transcontinental
practice—working between New York,
Paris, and Johannesburg— Jackson's
images crystallize African and African-diasporic realities while
challenging a fraught legacy of pictorial representation.
Taysir Batniji, Suspended
Time
Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, 401 Richmond
St. W, #124. May 3 – June 22
Opening: Friday, May 3, 7 – 10
p.m.
Taysir Batniji, a Palestinian
artist based in Paris, explores
the social, cultural and political realities of Palestine, the
challenges of migration, and the state of being "in between." The
exhibition is a survey of his photographic work of nearly twenty
years.
Bianca Salvo, The Universe Makers
Osgoode subway station, Queen St W
& University Ave. April 30 –
June 3
Artist Talk: Saturday, May 25,
3 p.m., Scrap Metal Gallery, 11
Dublin St. E.
Bianca Salvo explores the roles
that photography, technology, and science fiction have played in
producing evidence. An Italian artist based in Milan and Bogotá, her public installation at
Osgoode station, The Universe Makers (2016–18),
addresses public beliefs and false perceptions of interstellar
exploration some 50 years after the appearance on television of the
first man on the moon in 1969.
CONTACT Public Installations Panel
Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas St. W. Monday, May 6, 6:30
p.m.
CONTACT initiated its public art program in 2003 with a series
of four public installations of images in spaces historically used
for advertising. Since then CONTACT has produced over 150 unique
projects in high-profile sites across Toronto and Canada. Canadian and international
artists Nadia Belerique, Susan Dobson, Peter Funch, Esther Hovers, Sanaz
Mazinani, and Sputnik Photos artist Michal Luczak will discuss their varied
practices in relation to their 2019 site-specific projects.
Moderated by Bonnie Rubenstein,
Artistic Director of CONTACT.
The 2nd annual CONTACT Photobook
Fair
Stephen Bulger Gallery, 1356 Dundas St. W. Sunday, May 5, 11
a.m. – 5 p.m.
The second edition of the CONTACT Photobook Fair brings together
over 20 independent publishers and leading contemporary
photographers to present newly released publications. Publishers
include Anchorless Press (Toronto); Aperture Books (New York); Archive of Modern Conflict
(London and Toronto); Art Gallery of Ontario Publishing
(Toronto); Bywater Bros. (Port
Colborne, ON); Cristian Ordóñez (Toronto); Dashwood Books (New York); Dewi Lewis Publishing (Stockport, UK); Gnomic Books (New York); JMS Press (Toronto); Les Éditions du renard (Montreal); Light Work (Syracuse, NY); Meta/Books (Amsterdam); Prefix ICA(Toronto); Self Publish, Be Happy (London); Session Press (New York) and Sputnik Photos (Warsaw).
In conjunction with the Fair, CONTACT is organizing a dynamic
series of public programs and initiatives on photobooks, including
the exhibition The Photobook Lab, which
includes the 2018 Paris Photo–Aperture Foundation PhotoBook Awards
Shortlist at Scrap Metal Gallery (May
4 – June 1), the Women and Photobooks
Symposium (May 4) at the Art
Gallery of Ontario, and the
Book Dummy Reviews (May 6) at
Stephen Bulger Gallery.
About Scotiabank CONTACT Photography Festival
CONTACT
fosters and celebrates a diversity of photo-based practices in its
annual Festival in May and year-round programming in the CONTACT
Gallery in Toronto. CONTACT
presents lens-based works by acclaimed and emerging artists,
documentary photographers and photojournalists from Canada and
around the world. The core program of Primary
Exhibitions (collaborations with major museums, galleries and
artist-run centres), and Public Installations (site-specific
public art projects), are the Festival's central focus.
These are cultivated through partnerships, commissions, and
new discoveries, framing the cultural, social, and political events
of our times. The Featured and Open Call
Exhibitions present a range of works by local and
international artists at leading galleries and alternative
spaces across the city. CONTACT also includes a wide range
of programs including a book fair, lectures, talks,
panels, workshops and symposia during the Festival. The
CONTACT Gallery hosts exhibitions and related public programs
throughout the year.
CONTACT, a not-for-profit organization founded in 1997, is
generously supported by Scotiabank, Scotia Wealth Management,
Nikon Canada, Pattison Outdoor
Advertising, Toronto Image Works, Transcontinental PLM,
3M Canada, BIG Digital, Waddington's Auctioneers and Appraisers, Four
By Eight Signs, Beyond Digital Imaging, Steam Whistle Brewing, Art
Toronto, The Gladstone Hotel, The Globe and Mail, The
Metropolitan Detroit, NOW Magazine, CBC Toronto and
Canadian Art.
CONTACT gratefully acknowledges the support of Celebrate
Ontario, Ontario Cultural Attractions Fund, Ontario Ministry of
Tourism, Culture and Sport, Ontario Arts Council, The Government of
Ontario, Partners in Art, Canada
Council for the Arts, La Fondation Emmanuelle Gattuso, the Howard
Webster Foundation, Hal Jackman Foundation, Mondrian Fund, Istituto
Italiano di Cultura, Goethe-Institut, Tourism Toronto and all of
their funders, donors, and programming partners. For more
information, please visit scotiabankcontactphoto.com and follow us
on Twitter @ContactPhoto.
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