between elsewhere and possibility

3 Oct 2024-1 Mar 2025

Overview

between elsewhere and possibility brings together works by Sandra Brewster, Ésery Mondésir, Sharon Norwood, Farihah Aliyah Shah and Kara Springer, five Canadian artists with ties to the Caribbean. In their creative practices, these artists consider the ways in which accumulated collective and individual experience settles and unsettles within the realms of site, memory, and ritual in relation to a range of geographies: those of the Caribbean; those of Canada and the United States; and those of Europe, with the spectre of Africa in the background. Using photography, time-based media, and sculpture, the artists deftly parse the complicated legacies and frameworks that tie these diverse geographies together, including colonialism, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, migration, labour, and relationships to landscape. At a time when the binding threads of empire appear to be fast unravelling, these artists offer alternative methods for acknowledgement, reckoning, and resistance.

The exhibition is a parthership with Remai Modern (Saskatoon, Canada) and is curated by Sally Frater and Michelle Jacques.