the person you see in this image is her, Zinnia by Nima Esmailpour
The two short films featured in the video installation at YYZ Artists’ Outlet are to be viewed as the videographic extension of Zinnia’s photographic works. These works are often presented in various iterations of staged photography that pair the photographed event with the photographic event,…
Is it morning yet? by Katie Lawson
Heidi Holmes and I have been emailing one another through the darkest months of the year. I am thinking about writing this text as we cross the threshold of the shortest day, the Winter Solstice. My own experience of time this month has been slippery,…
the person you don’t see in this image is me, the camera-person: Zinnia Naqvi
Exhibition dates: Saturday January 20 – Saturday March 23, 2024 Opening: Friday January 19, 6-8PM This exhibition features two short films, an experimental documentary and a fiction film based on true events. Both films were inspired by footage shot surreptitiously by Zinnia Naqvi during a…
Witching Hour: Heidi Holmes
Exhibition dates: Saturday January 20 – Saturday March 23, 2024 Opening: Friday January 19, 6-8PM Witching Hour will materialize insomnia, symptomatic of nocturnal hormone fluctuations in menopausal bodies. Through an alchemic set of domestic hacks and arrangements, the installation will replicate the specific embodiment of…
Take me Back to Venus: La Pupila
A mural project on view from Sept. 30, 2023 – July 31, 2024 Opening: Sept. 29, 6PM – 8PM This mural is for women, for the tired days of being always alert, in a constant fight of our rights and still having more chances to…
Words Have Wings: Asma Sultana
SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17 – SATURDAY DECEMBER 17 2022 OPENING: FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 16 6:00 – 8:00 PM “Words have wings” is an imagined expression for the lost innocence deeply rooted in my culture of silence and misrepresentation. It is part of a journey probing my identity…
The Shadow of Your Smile by Alanna Thain
Desire lines are everyday traces that mark where bodies wander at will. Their pragmatic urgency might trample a grassy path that shortcuts across a park; over time they become their own contagious attractors, through repetition. But it is that first impulse to step off the…
10 Notes on Spirit Berries by Zoe Imani Sharpe
CEDAR EVE | SPIRIT BERRIES Image courtesy of YYZ. 10 Notes on Spirit Berries By Zoe Imani Sharpe In an interview with Yedda Morrison, poet Myung Mi Kim explains her thinking on poetic process: “[there is] always some kind of invisible, constant, millisecond-by-millisecond…
CEDAR EVE : Spirit Berries
CEDAR EVE | SPIRIT BERRIES Image courtesy of YYZ. A new mural for our YYZ Lending Library by Cedar Eve for the 2021-2022 programming year. This Mural is inspired by my childhood memories of picking berries and swimming on Manitoulin Island. A lot of those…