AiR: Nour Bishouty
January 10, 2024
51 Camden St, Toronto, ON M5V 1V2
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Images Festival is committed to providing an accessible festival and continues to work to reduce barriers to participation at our events. This year, we are implementing a COVID-19 policy to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission for all, and to prioritize the participation of people who are disability-identified, immunocompromised, or part of an otherwise vulnerable group.
The following guidelines will be in place: Self-Assessment: We ask that staff and participants screen themselves for COVID-19 before visiting the exhibition.
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.