TODAY! Open Studio & Conversation with Sameer Farooq
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
“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 his interview with Joana P. R. Neves)
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.
Read the full interview:
Is It Time For The Museum To See A Therapist?
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Sameer Farooq’s project Flatbread Library, 2024 (above), was part of the inspiration for the convivial food prepared by Zar’s Plate.
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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