AFK | Residencies

AiR: Nour Bishouty

Images Festival is partnering with Ace Hotel in Toronto for a yearlong partnership to curate the inaugural Artist in Residence Program. Four artists have been invited to participate in quarterly, month-long residencies at the hotel followed by an exhibition of their work. The residency takes place under the theme of (g)host, extending the 2023 festival’s central inquiry and foregrounding moving images to contend with ideas at the intersection of archives, spirit, care, and hospitality.

Nour Bishouty is our second Artist in Residence! She is a visual artist working in a range of media including works on paper, digital images, sculpture, video, and writing. Her work engages questions around dissonance, opacity, legibility, and the generative possibilities of misunderstanding. As a resident in the hotel, Nour will explore these themes in more detail.

The Ace Hotel has long nurtured the work of emerging artists. During her Artist in Residence stay, Nour will develop work that responds to the context of Ace Hotel Toronto and their experience there. At the conclusion of their residency, Nour’s work will be showcased to the community with an exhibition.

Date / Time
October 1, 2023–
January 11, 2024
Location
Ace Hotel Toronto

51 Camden St, Toronto, ON M5V 1V2

Street level entrance, elevator and ramp available. Accessible gender neutral and single occupancy washroom with automatic door.

For a map to Ace Hotel Toronto, click here

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Nour Bishouty

Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.