Léuli Eshrāghi and Jessica Karuhanga: Projections

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Jessica Karuhanga, "being who you are there is no other," 2021

2.5 minutes video, still. Image courtesy of artist.

Léuli Eshrāghi and Jessica Karuhanga: Projections

In this exhibition, Projections, as a conceptual framework, addresses several meanings of the word and its relationship to queerness, perceptions (specifically with regard to sexuality, race, and gender), and possibility as it relates to Indigenous, Black, and Queer futurisms. In creating a space that physically references film theatres and voyeuristic contexts, a relationship is established for the viewer to watch and observe, consider, anticipate, and to dwell in fantastication of the scenarios being projected. Each projection occupies its own alcove to further embellish ideas around these contexts as well as personal narratives, individuality, and criticality with regard to territory, ownership, and the physical and cultural occupation of space and land. Freedom, defiance, empowerment, presence, and self-fulfillment/self-actualization are key aspects of the work of these two artists.

Opening Reception and Artist Talk: Projections

Friday, September 24, 7:00 - 9:00pm CST, Dunlop Art Gallery (Central Library)Join us for an Opening Reception and Artist talk of Projections on September 24 with Artists Léuli Eshrāghi and Jessica Karuhanga, in conversation with Guest Curator Gary Varro. This event will happen in-person and livestream on Dunlop Art Gallery’s Facebook page and YouTube channel.  

Léuli Eshrāghi is a Sāmoan/Persian/Cantonese interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator and researcher working between Australia and Canada. Ia/they intervene in display territories to centre global Indigenous and Asian diasporic visuality, sensual and spoken languages, and ceremonial-political practices.

Jessica Karuhanga is a first-generation Canadian artist of British-Ugandan heritage whose work addresses issues of cultural politics of identity and Black diasporic concerns through lens-based technologies, writing, drawing and performances. Through her practice she explores individual and collective concerns of Black subjectivity: illness, rage, grief, desire and longing within the context of Black embodiment.

Gary Varro is a curator and visual artist based in Regina, where in 1996 he established and continues to present Queer City Cinema Festival and Performatorium Festival of Queer Performance. Gary is also a freelance curator.