Reposition - Exhibition At Canadian Embassy Washington
July 1st to October 31st, 2023 Extended
Reposition examines moments in Black Canadian History through a conceptual lens. The exhibition looks at a reimagined past where the systemic barriers that marginalized segments of society and prohibited wealth and limited the extensions of bloodlines did not take hold. The roots of this journey begins with portraits of Black Loyalists dressed in their redcoat uniforms anachronistically paired with basketball jerseys or overly-decorated to encourage us to question the ways success is measured in our culture. The portraits of Victorian and Edwardian sitters are presented with red lines running through the paintings to remind us of practices in North America that were put in place as barriers to success and development.