Talks + Panels
The Time of Balsams: In Conversation with Lamis Haggag and Marina Fathalla
401 Richmond 401 Richmond St. West, TorontoThe Time of Balsams: In Conversation with Lamis Haggag and Marina Fathalla Thursday, June 29th, 2023 6:00 pm Critical Distance Centre for Curators Suite 122 - 401 Richmond St W, Toronto Visitors will meet at the gallery to experience the exhibition, Garden of Broken Shadows, before the group proceeds down the hallway to the courtyard for the event. Resisting singular, easy, conclusive, or finite definitions The Time of Balsams is a conversation between Lamis Haggag and Marina Fathalla. Taking cues from Lamis Haggag’s new work The Lamenting Monotropa at Critical Distance, we will delve into myth-making, insisting on returning to the ways of being that live through us. We will be guided by the sun to unburden and to find solace in its harshness, in her silence. The tradition of lamentation reminds us that we’re storytellers, that we inherited grief, knowledge and layers of culture, through colonial occupations, and others […]