Following a thread from colonial hauntings to Freudian repression, Jacob reflects on the aftermath of the recent ousting of Wanda Nanibush from her position at the Art Gallery of Ontario over her pro-Palestinian stance, examining what fault lines are revealed by the residual traces left in this wake.
Luis Jacob
Luis Jacob is a Peruvian-born, Toronto-based artist and curator. Since participating in documenta12 in 2007, he has achieved an international reputation — with exhibitions at Museum der Moderne Salzburg, the Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, and the Toronto Biennial of Art (2019); La Biennale de Montréal (2016); Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York (2015); Taipei Biennial (2012); Generali Foundation, Vienna (2011); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2010); Hamburg Kunstverein and the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery (both 2008). In 2016 he curated the exhibition “Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto” at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, with a catalogue co-published with Black Dog Press in 2020.
