Critical Distance Status Featured

Ernesto Cabral de Luna is a Mexican lens-based artist working in Toronto. Working through analog and digital processes, he utilizes his own photographs, archived imagery and documents to create still images and short animations emphasizing the multi-dimensionality and materiality of the image.

Find out more

Ariel Smith is an award winning nêhiyaw, white settler and Jewish filmmaker, video artist, writer, and cultural worker.  Ariel works as the Artistic and Managing Director of Native Women in the Arts and is in the process of completing an MFA in Film Production from York University.

Find out more

A Big Heritage With a Glorious PastExhibition Catalogue  Curator: ma ma (Magdalyn Asimakis and Heather Rigg)Artists: Eleana Antonaki, and Marina Xenofontos Softcover, 6″x 9″2020 Description: A Big Heritage with A Glorious Past presents the work of Eleana Antonaki and Marina Xenofontos in an inconclusive dialogue around the migratory experience. In their practices, both artists explore transnational feminist perspectives, honing in on the adversities of migration and strategies of settling and creating homes while in exile.  Antonaki’s film Haunting Is An Act of Love (2019) takes place in the distant future where women’s bodies have evolved so drastically to adapt to migration that they have become water. The video functions as a portrait of a woman, a block of water, who tells her story. Her name…Find out more

Script, Stage, Screen | Ciprian Muresan Exhibition Catalogue Artist: Ciprian Muresan 31 pages, softcover, 6 x 9 in. ISBN 978-0-99-599821-6 Description: Exhibition catalogue curated by Oana Tanase, featuring work by Ciprian Muresan. Through the use of puppetry, Ciprian Mureșan engages performative modes of writing, enacting, and visualizing both the absurd and the whimsical, bringing viewers into surprising and intimate discourse with crucial themes of our times. Whether performing the scripts of influential playwrights such as Saviana Stănescu (Dog Luv, 2009) or generating new texts (I’m Protesting Against Myself, 2011, in collaboration with Gianina Cărbunariu, or Untitled, 2015, with members of the community), Mureșan’s projects speak to ideals of collective intelligence even as they concede the continuing failure of true communality. The audience is challenged not only to reflect upon themes…Find out more

Artist: Ebti Nabag Curator: Liz Ikiriko Genre: Archival digital print on Epson Premium Matte paper, 9 x 6 inches Edition of 100, signed and numbered by the artist Description: This print is the first in a new series of annual editions Critical Distance is launching in 2019. Selected by a different guest curator each time, the annual series continues our tradition of providing publishing opportunities for artists while producing affordable artworks for our audiences. Check out the other Artists’ Editions in the series under CDCC Collections, including limited and varied editions by Maria Flawia Litwin, Deborah Wang, Cathryn Miller, Lyla Rye, Maggie Groat and Jimmy Limit, Susana Reisman, and others. About the Artist: Ebti Nabag received her MFA from the Doc Media program at Ryerson University…Find out more