Festival Archive — 2022

Deconstructing oppressive barriers, dreaming everyday utopias into being

A decolonial praxis guiding the viewer toward freedom, liberation, joy, and celebration

Keeping alive the polychromatic nature of Black experiences, holding the vastness of Black subjectivity

Asserting a powerful Black presence in the city, challenging colonial histories of portraiture

A new visual narrative of Muslim experience and identity in Toronto

An exploration of “teenagehood,” when childhood collides with adulthood

Using photography to navigate the experiences of a first-generation immigrant

Emerging photographers probing the challenges in contemporary representations of identity, culture and the environment

Exploring new ways of thinking about Jamaican-Canadian culture, and reimagining the family album through a contemporary lens

An incisive remediation of archival material, exploding colonial notions of Indigeneity

Mining personal archives, institutional collections, music, and oral histories to chart and connect people and places with links to Haiti

Exploring physical, psychological, and cultural conceptions of time in relation to photography

Engaging with a history of Black male visual representation, reflecting shifting notions of identity and home

A new visual narrative of Muslim experience and identity in Toronto

Restaging personal histories toward expansive new futures

Documenting global projects that endeavour to ensure ecological and societal longevity

A mixed-media installation evoking the spaces on either side of the camera's lens

An homage to light's ephemeral apparitions

Compelling staged scenes ignite the imagination

Documenting an epic transcontinental journey

Exploring the role of belief under the conditions of our age

A poetic and luminous look at the wonder and complexity of the forest

Nature's power in conflict with the menace of human desire

A delicate balance between absence and presence evokes life's ephemeral nature

Appropriating contemporary images to highlight photography's role as an instrument of protest

Questioning the complex cultural and gender-related politics that underlie representation

Embedding and activating Black diasporic narratives in the urban wilderness

Exploring how familial exchanges produce Indigenous art histories

An exploration of family, land, and the power of place in Mixed Race identity and African diasporic histories

An evocative video and installation framing borders not as lines but rather richly layered spaces

An immersive experience focusing on global issues of displacement, migration, and geopolitical conflict

Exemplifying the creativity and range of perspectives of the emerging generation of photographers

An examination of analogue and digital aesthetics and their relationships to time

Exploring performances of gender, queerness, nations, environmentalism, and public protest

Examining structures of power through splicing and remixing the iconography of global currencies

A group exhibition looking at memory, loss, and the aftermath of change

Collaborative yet self-styled portraits generate new space for Black men in the pages of history

A group exhibition contemplating the influential power of narrative

A third instalment charting the progression of the massive Port Lands Flood Protection project and its creative ecology

Investigating colonial residues left in the environment and conceiving of natural spaces as contested territories

Envisioning reparative interventions into the remaining traces of a vast colonial project

Drawing on collections and archival materials, Bowen weaves together narrative threads of migration, racist dispossession, entrenched power networks, and hierarchies of remembrance

A comprehensive selection of works exemplifying a unique, transcontinental, queer photographic vision

A delicate, composite seascape commemorating the countless migrants who sail in search of freedom

Interrogating practices of photojournalism in photographs made in the USSR and Eastern Europe during World War II

A photographic collection offering a candid look into the hidden worlds of people defying gender conventions

Ten Canadian artists employing photographic media to engage with issues of identity and belonging

A mixed-media installation addressing the dramatic forces of the Anthropocene and its irremediable consequences

Focusing in on stereographic representations of Western science at a time of unprecedented change

Examining the construction, development, uses, and implications of the unique Leslie Street Spit

An installation of delicate, monumental beauty warning of things to come

A retrospective look at the trajectory of Thomas's powerful photographic vision

Vivid images addressing the impact on local women and girls of living without access to clean water

Reflecting on the rebirth borne of crisis and its collateral effects

Images reflecting the destructive and regenerative power of wildfires

An intimate celebration of the interior lives of Black women

An installation bringing a photograph, a cultural tradition, and the power of resistance to life

SIREN is a solo exhibition by the Toronto-based inter-disciplinary artist nichola feldman-kiss. The multi-layered presentation encompasses Siren III, a new large-scale single-channel video installation and surfacings, a new installation of video prints commissioned for the entrance of the Koffler Gallery. At the core of SIREN is a reflection on concepts of diaspora, migration and displacement, the paradox of national boundaries and borders within an ecology of elemental flows.

Re-engaging the archival vestiges of cultural memory to embody their lasting traces