Collective offerings

Curated by Mitra Fakhrashrafi & Vince Rozario

Black, Indigenous, racialized, migrant, disabled, and low-income people bear the weight of today’s political, environmental and public health catastrophes. These catastrophes, as Bedour Alagraa suggests, are not single events but a persistent condition imposed by colonialism, which strips us of resources and severs ties that bind us. Imagining otherwise for the land, for each other, and for ourselves, artists Meech Boakye and Christina Kingsbury, Shirin Fahimi, LAL (Rosina Kazi and Nicholas Murray), Jessica Karuhanga, and Shaista Latif offer a series of propositions— for sharing knowledge, space and resources. Through moving image, sound, poetry, and play, they invite us to nurture collective interdependence. Enter the digital exhibition.

Accompanying programs: The Craft of Precarious City Dwellers: A Conversation on the Science of Sand with Shirin Fahimi, Afterwords Communal Journaling with Meech Boakye and Christina Kingsbury, and an art drive with Shaista Latif and Afghans of Guelph to fundraise for the resettlement of Afghan families in Guelph and the surrounding areas.

Presented at the Art Gallery of Guelph with the support of the Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curators from October 21, 2021 to March 26, 2022.

Press

Composition: Transplant Collaborations by Meech Boakye and Christina Kingsbury in C Magazine