FALL EXHIBITION
Opening Friday, September 27, 2024: Join us at 6pm for a walkthrough with the Curator + Artists followed by a celebratory reception

Critical Distance is pleased to present Burnt Sugar, curated by noted author francesca ekwuyasi and featuring new and recent works by Adama Delphine Fawundu, Shaya Ishaq, Bushra Junaid, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, and Oluseye. Drawing upon the artists’ longstanding engagement with themes of migration, identity, Blackness, and diaspora, Burnt Sugar explores the inextricable connections between labour, extraction and sugar production including the transatlantic slave trade and its afterlives. As a writer’s experiment in storytelling through the group exhibition format, the exhibition contends with sugar as both matter and metaphor, probing the intertwined histories of sugar from multiple artistic angles, yet with a clear curatorial focus and the skills, practices, and self-preservation strategies that enslaved people and their descendants maintained through their migrations, forced and otherwise. 

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banner image: Adama Delphine Fawundu, Sea Whispers for Mami Wata at the shore of Guanahani, 2022

Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC) is a not-for-profit gallery, publisher, and professional network devoted to the support and advancement of curatorial inquiry in Toronto, Canada, and beyond.

With a focus on critically-engaged, collaborative, and cross-disciplinary practices, experimental and underrepresented perspectives and approaches, and wider public outreach and education on curating and exhibition-making, Critical Distance is an open platform for diverse curatorial perspectives, and a forum for ideas on curating as a way to foster meaningful connections across cultures, disciplines, geographies, and generations.

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Critical Distance
Suite 122
401 Richmond Street West
Toronto, Ontario M5V 3A8
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Critical Distance is located in Suite 122 on the ground floor at 401 Richmond, a wheelchair accessible building with ramps at both Richmond Street doors, and an accessible washroom on every level. The gallery is equipped with automatic doors, exhibitions are designed with mobility in mind, and we commission audio description for all core programs. Updates on any additional measures we develop in relation to specific artworks or events will be posted as it becomes available. For any questions or more information, subscribe to our newsletter or follow us on Instagram for updates as they happen. For more information on the exhibition, artists, and our organization, visit our website or contact us at info@criticaldistance.ca.