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  • While Black: A forum for speculation on what the gallery can't hold
  • While Black: A forum for speculation on what the gallery can't hold
  • While Black: A forum for speculation on what the gallery can't hold
  • While Black: A forum for speculation on what the gallery can't hold

While Black
A forum for speculation on what the gallery can't hold

11 June–
14 August, 2021

Curated by: Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques, Denise Ryner. In consultation with Pamela Edmonds, Alyssa Fearon, Dominique Fontaine, Sally Frater, Bushra Junaid, Crystal Mowry, and Allison Yearwood

Installation View, Photo by Dennis Ha

Stanley Février’s “Invisible Minority” & “Infiltration” video, Photo by Dennis Ha

Valérie Walker’s “B.S.S. Indigo Blue”, Photo by Dennis Ha

Window install view of "Tracing Currents" by Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, Photo by Dennis Ha

Spatial Esk’s “Afro Space”, Photo by Dennis Ha

"While Black" by Karma Clark Davis, Photo by Dennis Ha

"Afropresentism is the Space" by Anna Jane McIntyre, Photo by Dennis Ha

Installation View, Photo by Dennis Ha

Installation View of Jan Wade’s “While Black” (right), & Iyunade Judah’s “Bond” (left), Photo by Dennis Ha

While Black
A forum for speculation on what the gallery can't hold

With: Anna Jane McIntyre, SPATIAL-ESK, Karma Clarke-Davis, Stanley Février, Iyunade Ogunmodede, Kemi Craig, Valérie d. Walker, Lucie Chan, Chukwudubem Ukaigwe, Jan Wade.

Curated by: Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques, Denise Ryner. In consultation with Pamela Edmonds, Alyssa Fearon, Dominique Fontaine, Sally Frater, Bushra Junaid, Crystal Mowry, and Allison Yearwood

A co-presentation with the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria and the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown.

This is the first event in a multi-year series of planned forums, talks and public presentations developed and organized by Black curators from across Canada in conversation with artists to consider both the limits and possibilities of the relationship between contemporary art spaces in Canada and Black art, artists, arts workers and audiences.

Artists in this first iteration present questions, imperatives, narratives and proposals to initiate exchange on the space for Black art in public culture with local respondents, collaborating curators and gallery visitors.

[Photo documentation by Dennis Ha.]

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