EXHIBITION

Lunie Augustin is a Haitian-Canadian self-taught artist, currently based on the unceded lands of Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang. Through their work, they are compelled to investigate the thresholds of community and self-regeneration across the diaspora. They navigate between photography, printmaking, sonic experiments and writing to form a new language through which they express themselves, but their primary method for bearing witness to the shifting landscape of our collective consciousness is listening. 

Born and based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal, Bohetic is a second-generation Haitian and visual artist who uses photography to ​explore various themes circling around the concepts of culture, identity and home. She creates images that reminisce over the ancestry of afro-descendants, documents the frankness of their current experiences, and reimagines what her communities have the potential to be or become.

Generale Q is a multidisciplinary artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal. Specializing in art direction, photography, producing and writing, she dives into her love for the art of storytelling through unique and thoughtfully curated photoshoots, poetry series, music videos and short films. Turning pain into power is her goal, using powerful messages and her dedication to art therapy as tools to highlight the importance of mental health.

Sherman Salandy is a photographer and artist who lives and works in Montréal. His body of work — which includes photographs, hand and computer aided drawings, and sculptural pieces — is renowned for its dynamic energy and ingenious originality. His style combines references to contemporary art with a controlled simplicity, and is a reflection of his urban experience peppered with Caribbean & Trinidadian cultural flavours.

Andrew Jackson is a photographer and lecturer at London College of Communication and on the advisory panel of The Photo Ethics Centre. His works interrogate notions of place, belonging and selfhood, within intimate and personal interventions, and are held in the United Kingdom Government Art Collection, in addition to other public and private collections of art. These interventions focus on the themes of migration, displacement, and collective memory, but also seek to question and challenge how photography has traditionally narrated and represented stories of the diaspora. Originally from the UK, he is based in Montréal. andrewjackson.photography

Based in Little Burgundy and serving participants across Greater Montréal, DESTA supports Black youth aged 18 to 35 in reaching their educational, employability, and entrepreneurial goals through a holistic and individualized approach.