Booth 121
We’re looking forward to returning to Art Toronto this week with a presentation bringing together five artists whose practices explore memory, transformation, and transmission, each in their own way.
RAJNI PERERA
Perera continues her investigation into the rationale, fantasies, and absurdities that constitute the mythological ideation of the mothering figure in the present day. Themes of migration, resistance, adaptability, and transformation are prevalent across her practice, which imagines novel forms of social relating and species interdependence. She is participating in the current Venice Biennale.
MANUEL MATHIEU
Shaped by his childhood in Haiti following the fall of the Duvalier dictatorship and his subsequent move to Canada at the age of 19, Mathieu’s work explores memory, historical violence, and spiritual heritage through a sensory relationship with the land and the living world. Major works by the artist are currently on view at the Gardiner Museum and the Venice Biennale.
DELALI COFIE
Delali Cofie is a Ghanaian-Nigerian photographer and visual artist based in Toronto, Canada. His project The Candle Whispered Them Here uses photography and sculpture to explore Ghanaian oral traditions. His photobook A Place of Ours will be released later this fall.
MORIDJA KITENGE BANZA
Operating between reality and fiction, Kitenge Banza’s practice interrogates the systems that produce socio-historical narratives and establish them as truth: maps, archives, official documents, and religious imagery. He is currently presenting a solo exhibition at the Almas Art Foundation in London, UK.
MICHAËLLE SERGILE
Through weaving, Michaëlle Sergile seeks to understand and rewrite the histories of Black communities, with a particular focus on women and communities living at various intersections of identity. Her work will soon be exhibited at the Fondation Clément in Martinique as part of Paris Noir, an exhibition organized by the Centre Pompidou.
