Agnes Presents an Immersive Evening with Artist Renee Gladman

Renee Gladman, Untitled (wind, pink). Courtesy of the artist.

The Dreams of Sentences: An Artist Talk and Conversation with Renee Gladman

Moderated by Safia Siad

November 23, 2024, 6:00 – 8:30pm
Kingston Grand Theatre, Baby Grand Theatre, Kingston
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Join AGNES for an immersive evening with writer and artist, Renee Gladman whose work inhabits the spaces between crossings, thresholds, and geographies as they play out at the intersections of writing, drawing and architecture.

Eleven years ago, Gladman began exploring a form of writing that transformed into drawing, eventually evolving into its own distinct practice. Curated by Nasrin Himada, Associate Curator of Academic Outreach and Community Engagement at the Agnes Etherington Art Centre, this program traces a spectrum of thought where sentences becoming drawings, drawn lines orchestrate sound, and music articulates the unknown.

In partnership with The Revolutionary Demand for Happiness, Black Studies at Queen’s University and Queen’s Department of English, with support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council.

Biographies

Renee Gladman. Photo: Philippe Mangeot.

Renee Gladman is a writer and artist. She is the author of numerous books, including a cycle of novels about the city-state Ravicka and its inhabitants, the Ravickians, as well as three collections of drawings, Prose Architectures (2017), One Long Black Sentence (2020), and Plans for Sentences (2022). My Lesbian Novel, a work of fiction and autobiography, is forthcoming in fall 2024. Recent essays and visual work have appeared in The Architectural Review, POETRY, The Paris Review, The Yale Review, and e-flux, in addition to several artist monographs and exhibition catalogs. Since 2017, Gladman has exhibited her works on paper in galleries in the U.S. and across Europe. Her first solo show The Dreams of Sentences opened at Wesleyan University’s Zilkha Gallery in September 2022, followed by Narratives of Magnitude at Artists Space in 2023. She has been awarded fellowships and artist residencies from the Menil Drawing Institute, Harvard Radcliffe Institute, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, among others, and received a Windham-Campbell prize in fiction in 2021. She makes her home in New England.

Safia Siad. Photo: Courtesy of the artist

Safia Siad is an independent curator, scholar, and DJ with a practice centered in deep listening, unlearning, fugitive collaboration, and opaque movement(s). She is currently completing her MA in Art History at Concordia University and is curator and project manager with the Afrosonic Innovation Lab.

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