Artist, writer, and cultural worker Christina Hajjar integrates objects and food into her practice – exploring their social and political associations through memory, rituals, and conversations over shared food at hookah lounges.
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Diane Borsato, Artist and Associate Professor at the University of Guelph, describes her experience with community and fruit trees through ‘ORCHARD’, a public art project that continues to grow in Mississauga, Ontario.
“Resisting complete legibility, his larger-than-life, solitary characters are only accessible to those who take the time to get closer. Only then can viewers make out the figures from blotched brushstrokes, or discern delicately embroidered words that ventriloquize subjects’ thoughts.”
“Cooking and eating seemed to be an equalizer in a field where success can feel competitive, and hierarchies are manufactured.”
“The existence of Indigenous public institutions…creates a red shift within a community’s cultural imaginary.” –Felicia Gay, The Red Shift: A Contemporary Aboriginal Curatorial Praxis, 2011.
A response to BlackFlash’s Fall/Winter issue “Infinities.”
A response to BlackFlash’s Fall/Winter issue “Infinities.”
A response to BlackFlash’s Fall/Winter issue “Infinities.”
Guest Editor of BlackFlash issue 38.3, Nadia Kurd, talks to Jamelie Hassan about her past work, her influences, and how she has researched and interpreted the visual traditions found in Muslim-majority nations.
Photographer and mental health professional, Faisa Omer, welcomes Timiro Mohamed into her apartment and studio to share how she uses photography to tell socio-political stories, amplify voices in her community, and increase visibility of Muslim women in modest fashion.