EVENT: Artist Talk by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn
September 13, 2024 - September 13, 2024Critical Distance is pleased to present visiting artist Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn in partnership with York University. Drawing from the artist’s interdisciplinary PhD research, the talk will focus on Nguyễn’s film in progress, Visions in the Dark (working title). Set in early 20th-century Indochina and Paris, the film imagines the life of Khánh Ký (1885-1946), an aspiring Vietnamese photographer whose rise through the social ranks—documenting both anthropometric portraits and the colonial elites—reflects the tensions between ambition and a deep-seated desire for national liberation.
Find out morePUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Ernesto Cabral de Luna
June 1, 2024 - September 22, 2024OCAD University’s RBC Centre for Emerging Artists & Designers (CEAD), in partnership with Critical Distance Centre for Curators (CDCC), is pleased to present the Public Art Billboard and Exhibition Essay Career Launcher featuring artwork by Ernesto de Cabral de Luna and a commissioned essay by Kay Rangel.
Find out moreEXHIBITION: thinking about forever
April 11, 2024 - June 15, 2024thinking about forever is presented by Images Festival in partnership with Critical Distance Centre for Curators. Curated by Jaclyn Quaresma, and featuring works by Azadeh Elmizadeh, Maryam Tafakory, Shelley Niro and Anna Gronau, the exhibition explores refusal as an unwillingness to accept. In an ableist imperialist white supremacist capitalist cis-hetero patriarchy, refusal is also a mode of being that requires consistent rehearsal in order for one to sustain themselves against the violence of these interlocking hegemonic systems.
Find out morePUBLIC ART: Billboard on Shaw by Adee Roberson
October 13, 2023 - November 25, 2023Artist Adee Roberson‘s billboard Transport Connection (Sister Nancy) is on view at 180 Shaw Street through October to November, 2023, as part of the exhibition this bridge between starshine and clay featuring works by artists Renee Gladman, Adee Roberson, and Rashid Zakat, and curated by Safia Siad. The exhibition explores and illuminates sonic innovations and architectures that create and hold space for Black aliveness.
Find out moreEXHIBITION: this bridge between starshine and clay
October 14, 2023 - November 25, 2023Critical Distance is pleased to present this bridge between starshine and clay, an exhibition that explores and illuminates sonic innovations and architectures that create and hold space for Black aliveness. Using Lucille Clifton’s won’t you celebrate with me as a poetic entry point, this collection of work across mediums weaves through themes of geography, movement, rhythm, (un)knowing, vibration, and sound. Bringing together new works by artists Renee Gladman, Adee Roberson, and Rashid Zakat, the concept of musical bridge becomes literal, creating portals and possibilities.
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