Fall 2025 Exhibitions at Art Windsor-Essex

Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, je vous vois, toujours, 2025, oil on canvas, 36 x 48 in. Image courtesy the artist and Patel Brown.

Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich: An Archaeology of Echoes

October 16, 2025 – February 15, 2026
Reception at AWE at Night: October 16, 5 – 9pm
Curated by Emily McKibbon

Healing is an intergenerational undertaking in An Archaeology of Echoes. As a third-generation member of the Armenian diaspora, Ahmarani Jaouich’s work reflects her family’s history of exile following the Armenian Genocide. What we encounter is a deeply personal account of one family’s resilience, inviting us to reflect on our own responsibilities to those who must live in exile.

About the Artist:

Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich is a Canadian artist of Armenian, Egyptian, and Lebanese descent, exploring themes of genealogy, intergenerational trauma, and historical violence through her paintings. Her work is deeply rooted in her family’s history of diaspora, immigration, and genocide, drawing from oral histories, photographic archives, and inherited objects. Ahmarani Jaouich transforms these sources into narratives that blend memory with imagination, resonating with ancestral grief. Her practice advocates for a continual process of listening, believing that addressing ancestral grief liberates present and future generations.

Currently residing on the unceded indigenous lands of Tiohtià:ke / Montreal, QC, Canada, on Kanien’kehà:ka Peoples territory, she has received recognition through the Lilian Vineberg Scholarship, Merit Scholarship, and Tom Hopkins Memorial Award. Her artworks have been exhibited at Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Patel Brown, CLARK Center, articule, Printemps du MAC and Arsenal New York. Ahmarani Jaouich’s paintings are held in corporate collections, including Hydro-Québec, RBC, Scotiabank, as well as in private collections in New York, Los Angeles, Prague, Barcelona, Milan, Toronto, and Montreal. Ahmarani Jaouich is represented by Patel Brown.

Velibor Božovic, 19002CLDS200807BVSA / 19001PVMT200807BVSA, 2008, printed 2018, gelatin silver print on fiber-based paper, 76 x 102 cm. Image courtesy the artist.

Velibor Božović: Elsewhere, on Record

October 16, 2025 – February 15, 2026
Reception at AWE at Night: October 16, 5 – 9pm
Curated by Emily McKibbon

Elsewhere, on Record looks at the ways in which life stories are told and retold, remembered and distorted, or pieced together from available fragments. Reflecting the artist’s experience of conflict and migration, the show considers the narratives that build and shape our experiences of dislocation and loss. This exhibition will feature an essay by guest writer Dr. Gwynne Fulton.

This exhibition includes the third edition of Radio Elsewheres, an art and community radio project organized by Božović, Steve Bates, and Claudia Zini. Radio Elsewheres will be live from the gallery between October 16 and November 5, 2025.

About the Artist:

Velibor Božović grew up in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. When he was in his twenties, the country of his youth became a war zone and Božović spent the duration of the siege of Sarajevo honing his survival skills. In 1999, he moved to Montreal where, for eight years, he worked as an engineer in aerospace industry until he gave up his engineering career to fully dedicate himself to his art practice.

Božović holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in Studio Arts at Concordia University in Montreal where he now teaches. His work explores how images and sound shape memory and how they operate in the space where the historical, the fictional and the personal interrelate. Exhibited in Canada and internationally, his projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and by Conseil des arts et des lettres du Quebec (CALQ).

Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Xwat Maanzháapǔyak, 2024, pool noodles, rope. Photo: Priam Thomas for Art Spin.

Vanessa Dion Fletcher: BIG Doll | XWAT Naaniitus

November 20, 2025 – March 1, 2026
Reception at AWE at Night: November 20, 5 – 9pm
Curated by Julie Rae Tucker

BIG Doll is an exhibition that shows the process of making and creating from the heart, not the head. This exhibition is both profoundly personal and collaborative, open to audiences of all ages to participate in the design of an artwork. Dion Fletcher is inviting us to reflect on how our education systems are limiting our creativity. Our minds, bodies, and hearts are not uniform; we bruise when forced into prescriptive learning models.

About the Artist:

Vanessa Dion Fletcher is a Lenape and Potawatomi neurodiverse Artist; her family is from Eelūnaapèewii Lahkèewiitt (displaced from Lenapehoking) and European settlers. She uses porcupine quills, Wampum belts, and menstrual blood to reveal the complexities of what defines a body physically and culturally. Reflecting on an Indigenous and gendered body with a neurodiverse mind, Dion Fletcher primarily works in performance, textiles and video.

She graduated from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2016 with an MFA in performance and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University in 2009. She has exhibited across Canada and the USA at Art Mur Montreal, Eastern Edge Gallery Newfoundland, The Queer Arts Festival Vancouver and the Satellite Art show in Miami. Her work is in the Indigenous Art Centre, Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, Vtape, Seneca College, Global Affairs Canada and the Archives of American Art.

About Art Windsor-Essex

Art Windsor-Essex respectfully acknowledges that we are located on Anishinaabe Territory – the traditional territory of the Three Fires Confederacy of First Nations, comprised of the Ojibway, the Odawa, and the Potawatomi. Today the Anishinaabe of the Three Fires Confederacy are represented by Bkejwanong. We want to state our respect for the ancestral and ongoing authority of Walpole Island First Nation over its Territory.

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Image Descriptions:
1. A painting in layered washes of blue, showing abstracted Ottoman soldiers over two watchful eyes.
2. Gelatin silver print of a mysterious, cratered landscape.
3. Earrings constructed of pool noodle beads float in a pool.