Portfolio/CV
2024 - Curation
Transformative Access: Activating Disability Desires at the Window Box Gallery at Gallery 1313
September 2024-February 2025
Exhibiting a series of solo shows showcasing the works of Harmeet Rehal, Sunshine Torme Johnson, and Hollis McConkey in their dialogue with the transformative possibilities that can stem from disability experience. The curatorial essay can be read here. This project has been produced with the funding support of the Toronto Arts Council.
Harmeet Rehal, ਪੀੜੀ/Pidi as grounding (ਮੰਜਾ/Manjas as Mobility Aids), 2023
2023 - Art and Curation
A multimedia and multi-format exploration of time, the self and the image trough a trans lens
"I have been looking for words to express a sentiment that is found as much in the sensate fibre of experience as in the hard realities of physics. My father, whom I admire so deeply for his voracity for knowledge, shared with me the concept of time having a physical, measurable size, known in short as ‘time-size’. I have been interested in exploring a parallel: the object as a physical manifestation of memory, the object as a portal into its states through which it has had to pass to arrive at its final or perhaps current, still transient, form. I want to see its past in its static form. Weirdly, or perhaps serendipitously, I find parallels in the image of my body: a transient object, the product of everything that it has ever made happen and has ever happened to it, its history written in clear and cryptic ways on its surface. My body as having been multiple wholes, recombined and layered to become a person. Art that reveals its past takes on another relational ability as a narrative, connecting with the viewer in the story they can’t help but create to link it all together and reclaiming agency from the viewer in its potentially perpetual shifting, both physically and with the perspectives that interact with it."
A free zine distributed by mail about the independence of materials from the human will
"Within Dimensions of Toronto: Looking Otherwise with Nature, many of the pieces are ephemeral in a sense, especially pointed to through their translucency. There is a unity of mid-being broken by the instances of opaque metal. Oscillating visually on the border of being solid, made separate by glass, floating: this is possibility. This is a foreign yet familiar world, making the viewer a visitor in their own habitual “Toronto-space”, here made alien, made soft and precarious. Ephemera can be a counterpart to the literal and figurative concrete."
Programming - Looking Otherwise Workshop
"Friends and community members came together for a two-part workshop in which they were encouraged to “look otherwise” at the city through a series of scavenger hunt questions which culminated in the creation of collages with the found objects. The next day, printed copies of the collages were wheat pasted around Parkdale." - Window Box Gallery site
Posters: 11'x17', inkjet print on paper
"It's a Public Health Emergency" shelter action banner
This banner contains 166 silhouettes, representing the homelessness related deaths in 2021. This was held at an action in February led by Shelter and Housing Justice Toronto, demanding the city of Toronto increase access to warming centres, among other improvements to housing policy.
spray paint on canvas, 21’x4’ total
Writing
The Future is in the Fish! OCAD Art and Science Review, 2022
An Impossible Perspective - Sanaz Maziniani Revew, C Magazine Online, January 2024
Other
January-September 2023: C Magazine Editorial Assistant
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