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How are our identities assembled, and what role do visual, historical, and ideological structures play in who we become? Diallo consistently raises questions that rebuff easy answers.
How do you work alongside a lover while still respecting their fundamental difference and ultimate opacity? How do you come together while also staying apart?
In his novel of the same name, science fiction author William Gibson once described pattern recognition as a “gift and a trap,” which is a generous way of saying we search for meaning even when it may or may not exist.
“Holes Holding Whole; IdleTime” is a collaborative project by Ella Dawn McGeough, Erica Stocking, and Amanda Boulos that takes a surreal approach to dreaming and idle time. Moving through a nonlinear, dreamlike spiral of text and image, the work reimagines sleep not as a void, but as a portal to “weird wanderings” and “strange affinities.”
In the conversation titled “On Being a Nehiyaw Alien,” writer and curator Nawang Tsomo Kinkar and artist Cheynne Rain LeGrande discuss why LeGrande embraces this label, which captures the blend of terrestrial rootedness and celestial imagination in their work. Their exchange explores how family, language, style, and Fleetwood Mac come together within LeGrande’s unique interdisciplinary practice.
Photographer and filmmaker Farihah Shah draws on family histories to create visual “portals” between Guyana and Canada. Her artistic project, “Always About Land,” evokes a diasporic language that collapses time and space, illuminating how the enduring legacies of colonialism and resource extraction have shaped both locations.
In “The Queer is in the Details,” writer Christopher Lacroix profiles artist Douglas Watt, who creates miniaturized renderings of spaces central to Vancouver’s queer community. Lacroix examines how Watt’s reconstructions are shaped by equal parts camp and care, prioritizing a collective emotional ambience over strict architectural accuracy.
Tracing her family’s migration from Ukraine to the Canadian prairies and her own journey from Saskatchewan to Glasgow via Montreal, Dmyterko reflects on how these generational movements are captured in the symbolic motifs of her vibrant paintings.
Writer and scholar Greg J. Smith speaks with media artist Darsha Hewitt about how domestic life is shaped by contemporary technologies and what happens when those technologies become obsolete.
Translucent, overlapping forms echo architectural drawings, but their fragile outlines pulse with haunting beauty, charting the emotional landscape we associate with the idea of home.