AFK | Exhibitions

Just Below My Loves / En Bas Mes Amours

Miryam Charles

Curated by: Jaclyn Quaresma

film still showing a floral super imposed abstract image on a black background

Chanson pour le nouveau monde (Song for the New World)

Miryam Charles

CANADA | 2021 | 16 MM > DIGITAL | 9 MIN | CREOLE AND ENGLISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES

Following the disappearance of a man in Scotland, his daughter recalls words chanted before nightfall.

Gallery Hours

Tuesday - Saturday

1-6PM

Location

Laboratoire d'art Le Labo Inc

401 Richmond St W Studio 277, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8

For a map of Laboratoire d'art Le Labo Inc, click here

COVID-19 Policy

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.

This solo exhibition opens to the public on Tuesday, May 30, 2023 and continues until Saturday, June 24, 2023 at Le Labo, Suite 277, 401 Richmond St., Toronto.

Just Below My Loves / En Bas Mes Amours features three recent short films by the director, Tous les jours de mai (2023), Chanson pour le Nouveau Monde (2021), Une fortresse (2018). Originally shot on analogue film then digitized, the fictionalized narratives take us on a journey through sound and moving image drawing connections between land, loss and family in the aftermath of three separate tragic events.

An accompanying interview written in both French and English will be available in gallery and online following the exhibition.

Join us for a French language virtual artist talk on June 8, 2023. Details can be found here.

Miryam Charles is a Haitian-Canadian director, producer and cinematographer living in Montreal. She has produced several short and feature films which have been presented in various festivals in Quebec and internationally.

Miryam Charles

Presented With:

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.