In her essay “Homeplace: A Site of Resistance,” late feminist scholar bell hooks describes how the private space of the home can be a radical site for Black liberation. She highlights the caretaking role that Black women adopt in the home—whether act

Aamna Muzaffar: Golden Jubilee is the most recent in a set of three films you’ve made since 2019; to start off, can you tell me about the way these works are situated within your practice and, thinking about the arc of this triad, what brought these

Upon entering “The Meaning of Life” (2022), the viewer encounters a plywood panel marked with laser-cut holes resembling those in broken glass. A wall-sized video of young people speaking about their participation in the June 2020 SoHo protests in th

A quick reading of this work might induce scorn toward certain entities. But mining, oil, and gas companies work within the system offered to them by the government of Canada. And when companies are caught stepping out of bounds of the law, the resul

I learned then that dowsing, also known as water witching or radiesthesia, is an embodied practice of divination long used to detect entities underfoot: water sources, mineral ores, oil, and even lost objects. Using an instrument—such as a forked bra

Spanning more than five decades worth of material, “The Children Have to Hear Another Story” (2022) is a comprehensive retrospective celebrating the cinematic voice of Alanis Obomsawin and the blurry lines between artist, activist, musician, and film

On the first page of this issue, Soloman Chiniquay shows a ’70s-era mattress, resting upon a Forest Service Road, lit by the high contrast of midday sun, with a haphazardly folded piece of fabric interrupting a bold red text proclaiming “STOP.” Many

In just over two decades of art-making, Portuguese artist João Onofre has taken great stock of grand themes such as failure, irony, endurance, performance, connection, and love. The artist’s first solo exhibition in Canada, at Daniel Faria Gallery in

I was struck by a scene in the new HBO series Tokyo Vice (2022) when Samantha, the blonde American woman who is living and working in Tokyo, confrontationally asks Jake Adelstein, the Jewish male protagonist and real-life author of the memoir on whic

In 2012, Patricia Corcoran, Charles Moore, and Kelly Jazvac coined the term “plastiglomerates” to describe the peculiar geological phenomenon of rock sediment fusing to plastic refuse, a fossil-like embodiment of the Anthropocene. Allison Cobb’s Plas

“Should I translate?” asks the figure on the bed, lying at the feet of the camera operator, in reference to the Hindi song playing on her phone. In this opening scene from Sharlene Bamboat’s If From Every Tongue it Drips, this innocuous question serv

“What are we tethered to when everything seems to collapse/shatter/erupt simultaneously?” This is the question posed by Tanya Lukin Linklater in the text accompanying a recent exhibition at Catriona Jeffries, which brings together Lukin Linklater’s m

The Eramosa River was carved out as a glacial spillway over 20,000 years ago. It flows through the treaty lands of the Mississaugas of the Credit and the ancestral territory of the Chonnonton (known to some as Attawandaron). Fed by underground spring

For some of us, home cannot be understood as a specific place. In “Letters for Occasions,” Farah Al Qasimi’s photo-based installation, the artist looks at home in less spatial terms: home is joy, rest, family. Time collapses and expands through photo

Carnation is a self-published zine that centres BIPOC artists and writers who, in the words of editors Christina Hajjar, Luther Konadu, and Mariana Muñoz Gomez, contemplate “displacement and diaspora.” In the second volume of Carnation, the editors i

In many Indigenous cultures of Turtle Island, the Medicine Wheel is a symbol of abundance and healing that weaves the spiritual and physical worlds together. The four colours depicted on the wheel—black, red, yellow, white—symbolize the four directio

Terracotta—literally “cooked earth” from the Latin terra cocta—is a clay-based earthenware ceramic, porous and often unglazed. From the Terracotta Warriors, the approximately 7,000 individually crafted, life-sized ceramic warriors discovered in the m

At Ignacio Gatica’s “Stones Above Diamonds,” a thin aluminum display shelf borders the gallery walls; on it rests a straight line of custom-printed smart cards bearing images of barricaded storefronts. The display is bifurcated by a pole-mounted moni

Upon entering “Vermin Gloom,” one is immediately apprehended by an ambient soundscape, binding together the visitor, the architecture, and the works on display. Composed by musician Balas De Agua, the score is a composite of drum, flute, and key samp

Entering the gallery-cum-consulate at Canada House is not unlike passing through airport security, the guard informs me. First, I’m required to book tickets online or by QR code, which involves several sweaty minutes on Eventbrite while standing in t

Throughout the ’50s, a hydroelectric dam and artificial lake were constructed in Cornwall, ON, as a part of the St. Lawrence Seaway project. “Radiant Temperature of Openings” documents this transformation of the land. Despite referencing archival mat

Bile gathered at the bottom of my esophagus; I could taste it. “Câlice,” I muttered into the concrete of a Montreal alleyway. As I bent my chest to my legs, I folded my torso strategically to compress my stomach, easing the retching that would soon m

The Yukon Prize was formed specifically to address the territory’s artists’ relative lack of visibility in national art discourses. Competitions make me think about currency, not just because of the prize money, but also because of the circulation of

“When I first encountered his work, I immediately thought that we must be thinking about some of the same things,” Michèle Pearson Clarke remarked of Lou Sheppard. “And I always found it interesting that his work was rarely contextualized as addressi