The exhibition Jayce Salloum: history of the present (selected works 1985-2009) is the first retrospective of this important Canadian artist’s career, and includes a number of early works based on appropriated images, the video installation previously mentioned, and works produced during the two-and-a-half year Native Youth Art Workshop series, a collaborative art-making project for Aboriginal youths in the Thompson-Nicola Regional District.
Jayce Salloum: history of the present (selected works 1985-2009) is curated by Jen Budney, Associate Curator at Mendel Art Gallery in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, co-produced by Kamloops Art Gallery, Mendel Art Gallery and Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and supported by the Audain Foundation and the Museums Assistance Program, Department of Canadian Heritage. The exhibition tours across Canada in 2010 and 2011.
Jayce Salloum everything and nothing and other works from the ongoing videotape, untitled, 1999-ongoing installation view at Kamloops Art Gallery, 2009 Photo by Ray Perreault
A full-colour publication edited by Jen Budney with essays by Jen Budney, Keith Wallace and Ammiel Alcalay, and contributions from Dana Claxton, Rawi Hage, Jamelie Hassan, Ali Lohan & Irene Loughlin & Bernadette Phan, Meeka Noelle Morgan, Walid Raad & Farid Sarroukh, Haema Sivanesan, and Urban Subjects accompanies the exhibition.
Tour schedule:
September 11, 2010 to January 3, 2011 - Confederation Centre of the Arts, Charlottetown, PEI
April 9 to July 17, 2011 - Art Gallery of Windsor, ON
October 7, 2011 to January 13, 2012 - Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, SK
Click here for Fuse Review by Portia Priegert, Materializing Meaning: Jayce Salloum
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