Included with admission
About the speakers
Artist Carla Hemlock is Kanien’kehá:ka from Kahnawà:ke. She focuses primarily on textile art, but also works in diverse artistic media. Her work, which aims to initiate dialogue on historical, political, environmental and social issues, has been exhibited throughout North America and internationally, and can be found in private, corporate and public collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Royal Ontario Museum, the Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec.
Léuli Eshrāghi belongs to the Sāmoan clans Seumanutafa and Tautua, and the Persian diaspora, and lives and works in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Their practice prioritizes Indigenous, Black and Asian sensual and spoken languages as well as artistic, ceremonial and political practices. Eshrāghi has curated several exhibitions at the MMFA, including Kent Monkman: History Is Painted by the Victors (2025) with John P. Lukavic, Rising Suns: Art from the Confederacies of the Great Lakes and Rivers (2025) with the assistance of Katsitsanò:ron Dumoulin Bush, and Glenn Gear: ulitsuak | marée montante | rising tide, the (2024), a work the Museum commissioned artist Glenn Gear to create for its annual Digital Canvas.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Access to the event: Enter via the main entrance to the Museum, located at 1380 Sherbrooke Street West. The conversation will take place in the Lounge Area on the 4th floor of the Claire and Marc Bourgie Pavilion. First come, first served.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS AND PARTNERSHIPS
This exhibition was made possible in part thanks to the financial support of the Gouvernement du Québec.
Major Patrons
Fondation de la Chenelière and Fondation Ariane Riou et Réal Plourde
Patron
The Molson Foundation
Public Partners
Canada Council for the Arts and Conseil des arts de Montréal
