Critical Distance – Artscape Youngplace Billboard

Current Exhibitions & Programs Past Exhibitions

• 2023 / core / exhibition / outdoor

  

  Jake Kimble

  Grow Up #4

  Artscape Youngplace Billboard

  Artist Jake Kimble, a Chipewyan (Dëne Sųłıné) from Treaty 8 Territory in the Northwest Territories, combines humour and pathos in reflective images often featuring the artist engaged in acts of self-repair. Presented as a billboard on Shaw Street, Kimble’s elusive, abstract combination of image and text explores concepts of birth and being born, and hints at questions of what comes next, without offering any definitive answers.
• 2023 / core / exhibition / outdoor

  

  Nadya Kwandibens

  Shiibaashka’igan: Honouring the Sacred Jingle Dress

  Artscape Youngplace Billboard

  This outdoor component of the exhibition Materialized presents an image by newly-appointed Toronto Photo Laureate Nadya Kwandibens. Photographed at the Naotkamegwanning roundhouse, the portrait depicts three Anishinaabekwewag sharing a candid moment of laughter, subverting the “stoic Indian” trope that characterizes historical portraits by non-Indigenous photographers. It is said that laughter is medicine—this image brings together that energy with the healing power of the jingle dress.