Please join us on Thursday October 20th to celebrate the opening of two new exhibitions: Movers and Makers and self/same/other

Movers and Makers
September 15 – December 23, 2022
Curated by Betty JulianChristina Leslie,  “Aundre” (left) and “Stephanie” (right) from Pinhole Remix, color photographs, 2020.

Movers and Makers is a group exhibition featuring photographic work by four early-career Toronto-based artists: Aaron Jones, Christina Leslie, Dainesha Nugent-Palache and Bidemi Oloyede.

While the past few years have had a devastating impact on many people, it has been especially hard for those of the Black diaspora, as the two overlapping catastrophes of racism and the pandemic have taken a profound toll. Movers and Makers speaks to the challenges of the present moment by invoking a desired future of Black optimism. It does so by furthering the goal of its precursor Movers and Shakers (2018, presented at Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art) to provide a much-needed exhibition opportunity for local early-career artists, while critically shifting toward Black artists who address their subjectivity through artistic strategies of photographic experimentation.

self/same/other
September 15 – December 23, 2022
Curated by Pamela Edmonds

Jeff Thomas, Plate 724 – Sense of Self, from the series My North American Indian: Volume 21, 2009.

Artists: Barbara Astman, Carl Beam, Joseph Beuys, Sorel Cohen, Micah Lexier, Meryl McMaster, László Moholy-Nagy, Bidemi Oloyede, Jeff Thomas

This exhibition brings together artworks drawn from the M(M)A’s permanent collection that present diverse ways of exploring self-imaging and subjectivity through different types of photo-based media. Expanding the genres of portraiture and self-portraiture, together these images reveal how the camera and its reproducible technologies is used to explore changes in bodily perception and identity in art and mass culture across time. The artists reconsider the pursuit of traditional likeness through conceptual and formal experiments, raising questions about how we perceive and represent ourselves and others.