Free of charge
About the Speakers
Anique Jordan is an artist and curator who seeks to address the question of possibility in her art. She works in photography, sculpture, and performance, employing the theory of hauntology to challenge historical or dominant narratives and creating what she calls “impossible images” that take into consideration the logics of time, the Black surreal, and the marvellous. She has lectured on her artistic and curatorial practices as a 2017 Canada Seminar speaker at Harvard University and in institutions across the Americas. In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario. She is currently an assistant professor at Parsons School of Design.
Marie-Ann Yemsi is an independent exhibition curator and contemporary art consultant based in Paris, France. She holds a degree in political science, and is especially interested in theoretical, critical, and aesthetic productions in the Global South, developing multidisciplinary art programs at the intersection of the visual arts, performance, dance, music, and writing. Her projects focus on collaborative art practices and experimental forms, highlighting themes such as memory, history, gender, and identity in relation to contemporary political, social, and ecological issues. She has organized numerous international exhibitions, including, most recently, the group exhibition Ubuntu, a Lucid Dream, at the Palais de Tokyo in Paris, and Grada Kilomba’s A World of Illusions, at the Norval Foundation in Cape Town, South Africa. She is currently the director of Villa Arson, an art centre in Nice, France.
Anne-Marie St-Jean Aubre is the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Curator of Quebec and Canadian Contemporary Art (1945 to Today). As Curator of Contemporary Art at the Musée d’art de Joliette, where she worked from 2017 to 2023, she oversaw many solo and group exhibitions featuring women artists, Indigenous artists, and artists from diverse backgrounds.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Location: The event will be held in The Salon, located on the second floor of the Jean-Noël Desmarais Pavilion.
Reservation terms: Admission is free. Places are limited. Tickets will be distributed onsite at the ticket office on the day of the event on a first-come, first-served basis.
