CURTIS SANTIAGO: CONSTRUCTING RETURN
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College Art Galleries 14-107 Administration Place, Mackinnon Building, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5A2
Curtis Santiago, "Mumala on Veranda (detail)," 2016
OPENING RECEPTION: FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15 AT 7:30 PM
THE ARTIST IN DIALOGUE WITH THE CURATOR: Curtis Santiago and Magdalyn Asimakis
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 14 AT 12 NOON, GORDON SNELGROVE GALLERY
An accompanying exhibition essay written by Nomaduma Rosa Masilela will be available in the gallery for take-away.
Through drawing, painting, sculpture and video, Curtis Santiago instinctively moves between places and media to access his past in order to understand what Stuart Hall refers to as the ‘diasporic experience.’ This survey presents bodies of work developed in Canada, the United States, Trinidad, and South Africa that unpack the ways we look at and structure the past as a way of understanding the present. -Curator, Magdalyn Asimakis