Open Studio & Conversation with Sameer Farooq
SAVE THE DATE: Tuesday 28 April + drinks & nibbles by in-house chef Zar's Plate
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Join us to celebrate Sameer Farooq’s residency with:
🥂 Drinks from 3 PM
🍴Food by @zars.plate from 6 PM
💬 Talk between Sameer Farooq and Joana P. R. Neves from 6.30 PM
📅 Tuesday 28 April | 3 – 8:30 PM
📍WORLDING, 65-69 County St, Elephant & Castle, SE1 4AD
Sameer Farooq is a Toronto-based artist of Pakistani and Ugandan Indian descent. He suggests new ways of narrating our cultural histories, often in collaboration with others. His artistic projects counterbalance how dominant institutions speak about our lives, through counter-archives, new additions to museum collections, and by making buried histories visible. Currently, his project The Fairest Order in the World is touring across five institutions in Canada.
“I had the idea of the internal archive, as opposed to the external archive […] We already hold a vast amount of storage in our mind’s eye, which we can begin to articulate, visualise.” (Sameer Farooq, Excerpt from the interview linked below.)
Read the full interview:
Is It Time For The Museum To See A Therapist?
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The work above is Sameer Farooq’s project Flatbread Library, 2024, also mentioned in his interview linked above, and which was part of the inspiration for the food by Zar’s Plate, in conversation with the artist, for the Open Studio.
Image: Flatbread Library, 2024, Toronto Biennial of Art, Canada , Curated by: Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López, Co-commissioned and co-presented with the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, with residency support from the Stonecroft Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts.
Canada <-> International @_canada_international has established an annual Toronto-focused residency with Worlding, London (UK). In partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art @torontobiennial (TBA), residency artists will be selected from TBA’s past and present editions, deepening their engagement both locally and internationally.
A special thank you to Zoë Foster @zoe_foster_ & Alexandra Lambert @aelambert1 for this collaboration.
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