![]() ![]() Buhlebezwe Siwani, Hwati Masimba, Rita GT and Valete explore themes centred on issues of identity, gender, violence, spirituality, and everyday racism and social issues, where the body is the producer of meaning(s). ![]() The exhibition includes multidisciplinary works of music, sound, video, installation, photography and performance by artists established in Portugal and abroad. Photo: Art Gallery of Ontario.‘Black Skin, White Masks: The Black Body in Presence‘ is a performative exhibition curated by Nuno Silas and Titos Pelembe that takes Frantz Fanon’s proposal of ‘Black Skin, White Masks’ as its point of reference. Hero image: Installation view, Winsom: I Rise, December 22, 2018–July 7, 2019. This recent acquisition is on view, alongside Winsom’s mentee Pamila Matharu’s exhibition Where Were You in ’92?. She influenced the emergence of several Canadian artists, such as Pamila Matharu and d’bi.young anitafrika. Entwined with her career as an artist and activist, Winsom has a longstanding history as an art educator. As the co-founder of Kingston’s Black Women’s Collective she worked with the Mayor’s office on issues of racism and attracted many Black activists to Kingston, including Angela Davis, Odetta, Dr Mavis Burke and Lincoln Alexander. The mask can change but to rid ourselves of it fully we need healing from the elements.”īorn in Kingston, Jamaica, she immigrated to Canada in the 1970s and lived in the Kingston, Ontario area from 1974 to 1989. In her notes for the I Rise exhibition (AGO, 2018), Winsom writes, “The covering mask that we wear, no one sees the real us due to all the hurts, oppression, disadvantage, that we experience in a lifetime, from generation to generation. ![]() The installation includes Me Myself & I, a self-portrait of Winsom wearing a mask. ![]() She has a remarkable career as a multi-media artist with a background working in varied media: textiles, painting, video, installation and puppetry. The Masks We Wear is an installation made by Ashanti Maroon artist Winsom Winsom. ![]()
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