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Developing Historical Negatives: Deanna Bowen, Morris Lum, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn, Krista Belle Stewart, Hajra Waheed

Gallery 44

Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto

May 3 – June 1, 2019

is an exhibition that materializes the undercurrent narratives of belonging, rather than romanticizing an idealistic sense of it. Expressing concern over the one-sided nature of official records, the participating artists reclaim ownership of their respective cultural heritages from a range of subject positions by reimagining and re-appropriating various image-based materials. Working with and through archives, and organically united by intergenerational transfers of resilience and cultural memory, the artists

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