Tracing Labor Territories: Opening Reception

Sur Gallery / LACAP

Opening Reception for Tracing Labor Territories exhibition.

Sur Gallery

ABOUT EXHIBITIONThe artists in the exhibition deconstruct the politicized spaces that lie between territory and labor, outlining the imperial and colonial relationship of the North and the South. Four artists listen and interpret migratory flows between borders, they shift the margins and narratives with various artistic proposals and mediums. From photography to video installation to sound art, the artists Anahí González, María Hoyos, Martín Rodríguez, and Victor Vargas offer counter-narratives and a perspective of the migrant worker who is often marginal, silenced, exploited, and erased, within a settler colonial state that profits of their labor force while making their presence invisible.For more than fifty years, Canada has relied heavily on seasonal workers to fill labor shortages to ensure food self-sufficiency. The artists in Tracing Labor Territories allude to the various impacts that result out of this geopolitical phenomenon. Victor Vargas depicts the alienating experience of temporary agricultural workers separated from their loved ones, while María Hoyos denounces the physical harms caused under poor working conditions. Martín Rodríguez depicts human migration through the immateriality of sound, and Anahí González reminds us of the geopolitical implications and effects of a neoliberal economic model and reveal the impact of globalization. The artists delve into the multiple nuances that permeate territory within nation state building, while exploring cross-border thinking at its core. The profit of land and of people mark a site of complicity, through renewed forms of human exploitation, and through the perpetuation of privilege. The artists assume the responsibility of exposing its reality and truth.The artworks in Tracing Labor Territories highlight the social, economic, political and health challenges faced by migrant workers, and point to its underlying inequality. Most importantly, the artists foreground the experiences of underrepresented subjects within a predominantly White and elitist arts industry, and insert its image from an emphatic and ethical approach, with the voice of migrant workers to the imaginary of Canadian art.Curated by Mariza Rosales Argonza and Tamara Toledo PROGRAMMINGOpening Reception:Thursday, January 25, 7-9pm Curator Tour with Mariza Rosales Argonza:Saturday, January 27, 2- 3pm Artist Talk with Martín Rodríguez and Anahí Gonzalez Terán:Thursday, February 8th, 7-8pm Curator Tour with Tamara Toledo:Thursday, February 22, 7-8pm ABOUT SUR GALLERYSur Gallery is Toronto'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/videos Gallery Hours:Wednesday to Friday noon-6:00PM / Sat 11AM-5PMLocation: 100-39 Queens Quay East, Toronto Sur 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.

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