Curator Tour with Sarah Shamash

Sur Gallery / LACAP

In-person tour with curator Sarah Shamash for the Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar exhibition.

Sur Gallery

Join us October 7th at noon for a curator tour with Sarah Shamash for the &quot; Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar&quot; exhibition. She will share her thoughts and the exhibition and give more information about individual works. This is an in-person event.&quot;Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar&quot; is co-curated by Sarah Shamash and Tamara Toledo.Financially supported by the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts.ABOUT THE CURATORSSarah Shamash is an Assistant Professor of Critical and Cultural Studies at Emily Carr University of Art and Design. Her work as a media artist has been supported by arts council funding and comprises a wide variety of formats; her works have shown in curated exhibitions and film festivals internationally. Her most recent documentary project, From Chile to Canada: Media Herstories premiered at the Vancouver International Film Festival (2022) and is currently showing in festivals internationally. Her scholarly research examines Latin American and diaspora film and media cultures with a focus on Brazil. She lives on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil Waututh First Nations in Vancouver.Tamara Toledo is a curator, scholar, and artist based in Toronto. She is a graduate of OCAD University, with an MFA from York University, and is currently a PhD candidate in Art History and Visual Culture. Her research focuses on hemispheric connections, decolonial methodologies and practices, diasporic histories, and the legacies of the Cold war era in contemporary art. Toledo is recipient of various grants, scholarships, and awards and has been published by ARM Journal, C Magazine, Fuse, Canadian Art, and Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture Journal of the University of California. She has participated in various conferences and symposiums across Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Toledo is currently the Director/Curator of Sur Gallery.ABOUT SUR GALLERYSur Gallery is Toronto&#x27;s first gallery space dedicated to the exhibition and critical engagement of contemporary Latin American Art and is a project of LACAP. For information contact:416-654-7787info@surgallery.cawww.surgallery.cawww.surgalleryvirtual.cawww.facebook.com/LACAPsurgalleryhttps://www.youtube.com/user/lacapcanada/videosGallery Hours:Wednesday to Friday 12 pm-6 pmSaturdays 11AM-5PMLocation: 100-39 Queens Quay East, TorontoSur Gallery acknowledges the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts; Ontario Arts Council; Toronto Arts Council; The City of Toronto through section 37; and the Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts. Sur Gallery also acknowledges its sponsors Ready2Post; See Through Web; and Hoffworks Productions; as well as its partner VIVO Media Art Centre and community partner aluCine Latin Film + Media Arts Festival.

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