Foundation
Stan Douglas: Revealing Narratives
February 19 → May 22, 2022
The PHI Foundation will present the Canadian premiere of Douglas’s series Penn Station’s Half Century, and for the first time in Québec, the Disco Angola series
PHI Foundation
465 Saint-Jean Street
Education Room (SS01)
Wednesday to Friday: 12 PM—7 PM
Saturday and Sunday: 11 AM—6 PM
Free admission Reservations required (included when you reserve for Stan Douglas: Revealing Narratives)
The vaccine passport is required for visitors aged 13 and older + 1 piece of ID required for visitors aged 16 and older.
For more details on safety measures in place at the PHI Foundation, visit our COVID-19 page.
Artists
Lunie Augustin
Bohetic
Generale Q
Sherman Salandy
And a zine with contributions from
Ellen Adams
Luc Brissette
Marie-Laure Tittley
Kirubel Mehari
Luckensy Odigé
Nikhita Panwar
Prune Paycha
David D. Pistol
In Heart and Life and Longing is an exhibition stemming from a public engagement project developed by Andrew Jackson in collaboration with DESTA Black Youth Network. Conceived as part of our Fall 2021 and Winter 2022 programming, the project was initially interested in the histories, communities and spaces of Little Burgundy, a neighbourhood in the southwest of Montréal where DESTA is located. An important site for Montréal's Black community, Little Burgundy has undergone a series of intense transformations since the second half of the twentieth century, derived from successive waves of gentrification. Given this, how can we make visible what was, and what is still there?
As a group, we decided to open these questions up to the whole city, to go beyond the specificity of a single area. How can we translate our lived experiences? How can we bear witness to the personal and collective effects of these urban transformations on our homes? How can we collect signs that testify to our fragility and resilience? The presentation of this project offers a beautiful echo of the questions posed by Stan Douglas in Revealing Narratives: confirming the capacity of images to narrate, document, imagine, feel and reflect on our current moment.
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.
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