Nahed Mansour
Nahed Mansour is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist and curator. Working in video, installation, and performance, her works typically draw on visual archives to highlight the relationship between entertainment, labour, and processes of racialization and gendering. In using found images and found footage in her work, Mansour seeks to draw attention to the reproduction of social hierarchies by means of seemingly innocent forms of entertainment.
Her current project focuses on the iconography of Little Egypt, the stage name of the first belly-dancer in North America, who premiered the dance during the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 in Chicago.
She is Constituent Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto Canada. Previously Nahed has held the position of Artistic Director at the South Asian Visual Arts Centre, as well as Director of Mayworks Festival of Working People and the Arts – Toronto.
She has written for MICE (Moving Image Culture Etc.) Magazine as well as Fuse Magazine, where she sat on the editorial committee from 2011 – 2014.
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EXHIBITION: We Look at Animals Because
January 25, 2018 - March 25, 2018Critical Distance is pleased to present We Look at Animals Because, an exhibition that gazes on animality. Presented in partnership with South Asian Visual Arts Centre (SAVAC), the exhibition features works by Quratulain Butt, Khaled Hourani, Maha Maamoun, Smriti Mehra, Huma Mulji, Ed Panar, Alex Sheriff, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman, and curated by Toleen Touq and Nahed Mansour.
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January 25, 2018 - March 25, 2018Artist Quratulain Butt’s billboard Ego is on view at 180 Shaw Street through January to March, 2018, as part of the group exhibition We Look At Animals Because, curated by Toleen Touq and Nahed Mansour and featuring photographs, works on paper, sculpture, and videos by Khaled Hourani, Maha Maamoun, Huma Mulji, Ed Panar, Alex Sheriff, and Andrea Luka Zimmerman.
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