A Return to Foul Bay - installation at Gladstone House

A Return to Foul Bay is part of Return, a two-person show exhibition with @delali.cofie curated by @peony_iris as part of @contactphoto.

Return explores ideas of home through photographs by Toronto artists Alexandra Majerus and Delali Cofie. Both artists' work capture the quiet everyday, with moments of joy and reflection. Cofie's images were made in his native Ghana. He describes them as "a love letter and salute to the people and moments that decorate everyday life." Majerus's works document a return home to Barbados to Foul Bay, the last place she visited with her father before his death. She says "the photographs reflect upon not only the loss of a parent but also the loss of a home as I lose my familial connections to the land."

Curated by Lee Petrie.

Feminist Photography Network residency

This group residency was an amazing experience of networking, new friendships, art discussions and production, swimming, laughter, communal meals and island exploring with a cross section of artists from different backgrounds and ages. 

From the Feminist Photography Network website: 

FPN Island is a one-week immersion residency on Toronto Island’s Artscape Gibraltar Point led by the guiding principles of valuing intergenerational and intersectional identities. This experience will advance participants’ practices and develop skills through mentorship, network building, and knowledge sharing.

The 2023 FPN Island artists include: 

Tobi Asmoucha, Barbara Brown, Michele Crockett, Dianne Davis, Hannah Doucet, Amanda Foulds,  Bisma Jay, Bahar Kamali, Soka Lazara, Alexandra Majerus, Lesia Miga,  Allison Morris, Dainesha Nugent-Palache,  Peggy Taylor Reid & Kelsey Whyte

This residency is made possible by support from Canada Council for The Arts and our programming partners BIPOC Photo Mentorship Program and OCAD University. 

 

Artscape Gibraltar Point

The Shape of Memory in Guest Room: Franziska Kunze at Der Greif

 The Shape of Memory was selected for an archive is an archive is an archive. 

Der Greif Guest Room:

Franziska Kunze 
Mar 09, 2023

Guest Room aims to spark collaboration. Franziska Kunze, Chief Curator of Photography and Time-Based Media at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, has chosen to collaborate with Marta Binazzi, who is Photo Archivist at the Biblioteca Berenson, I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies.

Together, they have developed the following framework for your submissions: An archive is an archive is an archive.

With An archive is an archive is an archive – adopted from Gertrude Stein’s echoing and brilliant quote – Franziska Kunze and Marta Binazzi want to explore the possibilities of archival matters within photography. What do photographs do in archives? What do archives do with photographs? What do you do with both?

https://dergreif.org/guest-room/franziska-kunze-/

I would like to acknowledge funding support from the Ontario Arts Council, an agency of the Government of Ontario.