AFK | Exhibitions

scores for failed structures of the private

Eve Tagny

Curated by: Jaclyn Quaresma

Gallery Hours

Tuesday-Thursday

4 PM-12 AM

Friday-Saturday

4 PM-1 AM

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 of Ace Hotel Toronto, 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.

Eve Tagny is a Tiohti:àke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory inscribed with the dynamics of power, colonial histories, and their legacies.

scores for failed structures of the private, a new body of work created while in residence at Ace Hotel Toronto, explores how concepts of private ownership and privacy are foundational to Western racialized notions of the civilized, modern human being. Through gestures and embodied expressions, Eve calls this underpinning into question: how do these fraught foundations predetermine our relationships to nature, labor, sustenance and intimacy in urbanized spaces?

Credits:

Direction: Eve Tagny

Choreography and performance: Nyda Kwasowsky

Screenprinting: Pudy Tong

Framing: The Gilder

Photo printing: Gallery 44

The artist would like to acknowledge and thank: Images Festival (Jaclyn, Camille, Magdalyn, Kai), Nyda Kwasowsky, Michael Nyarkoh, Open Studios (Rebecca, Pudy, Rachael), Gallery 44 (Alana, Daniel, Miora, Heather, Leila), Ace Hotel Toronto, Cooper Cole gallery, The Gilder, Royal Del Sol, Noor, Nour, Brian, Jocelyn, Simon, Liz, Zinnia, Cleo, Sarah, C41, Graination.

Eve Tagny

Eve Tagny is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory — inscribed in dynamics of power, colonial histories and their legacies. Weaving lens-based mediums, installation, text and performance, she explores spiritual and embodied expressions of grief and resiliency, in correlation with nature’s rhythms, cycles and materiality. Tagny has a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a Certificate in Journalism from University of Montreal. Recent exhibitions include Musée de Joliette, Momenta Biennale, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Centre Clark, Montreal; Cooper Cole, Gallery 44, and Franz Kaka, Toronto. She is the recipient of the Mfon grant (2018), the Plein Sud Bursary (2020) and has been shortlisted for the CAP Prize (2018), the Burtynsky Photobook Grant (2018) and the OAAG Award (2020).

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.