From the Edge of the Horizon II

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Dawit L. Petros, Untitled (Prologue II), Nouakchott, Mauritania, 2016, archival color pigment print, 30 x 37.50” (detail) (photo courtesy of the artist, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal and Tiwani Contemporary, London © the artist, 2025)

DAWIT L. PETROS

From the Edge of the Horizon II

COLLEGE ART GALLERIES

EXHIBITION OPENS ON SEPTEMBER 5

JOINT OPENING CELEBRATION:

HOSTED BY REMAI MODERN

SEPT 4 / 6:00pm - 9:00pm

From the Edge of the Horizon – a two-part exhibition presented at the University of Saskatchewan College Art Galleries and Remai Modern – gathers works that chart Petros’ longstanding inquiries into geography, identity, and migration. The exhibition title draws our attention to the recurring horizon line connecting many of Petros’ bodies of work and their disparate global geographies. From the Edge of the Horizon II includes works from four major series: The Stranger’s Notebook, Spazio Disponibile, Reinscriptions, and As the Nile Flows and the Camel Walks.

Dawit L. Petros’ multidisciplinary practice centres on critical re-readings of the relationship between East African histories and European modernism. Petros’ work across photography, video, archival material and installation, is informed by extensive global travel and research on the entanglements between colonialism and modernity. He reframes archival materials to offer speculative meditations on transcultural space and the geopolitics of a region. His works raise questions concerning displacement, migration, mobility and resettlement, as well as the connection of people through the specific geographies of Italy, Eritrea, Cuba and Canada.

Petros’ complex practice is arrived at through lived experience. Born in Eritrea, the artist also lived in Ethiopia and Kenya before his family settled in Saskatoon, Canada. The overlapping cultures, voices and tenets of this constellation produce a dispersed consciousness and global outlook that is at the fore of his work. From the Edge of the Horizon presents an introspective and textured analysis of the historical factors that produce these migratory conditions.

Curator, Leah Taylor, College Art Galleries

The companion exhibition at Remai Modern is curated by Michelle Jacques, Head of Exhibitions & Collections/Chief Curator