Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice

Khadejha McCall, Untitled, Silkscreen on canvas, 2000. Photo: Chiedza Pasipanodya.

A Space Gallery Proudly Presents

Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice

BUSEJE BAILEY
MARIE BOOKER
CLAIRE CAREW
GRACE CHANNER
DZI…AN
KHADEJHA MCCALL
MOSA MCNEILLY
CHLOE ONARI
BARBARA PRÉZEAU STEPHENSON
WINSOM WINSOM

November 24, 2022 – February 23, 2023
Reception: November 24, 7-9pm
Curated by Andrea Fatona
The exhibition takes place in A Space Main Gallery, Vitrines, and the 401 front lobby exhibition space.

Dedicated to the memory of Khadejha McCall and Chloe Onari.

Practice as Ritual / Ritual as Practice is a group exhibition at A Space Gallery, featuring the works of 10 Black women artists who participated in the historical 1989 DAWA Collective exhibition, Black Wimmin: When and Where We Enter, the first national exhibition to address the exclusion of Black women artists from the visual landscape of Canada.

The exhibition attests to and affirms the artists’ sustained practice of producing art that articulates the heterogeneity of perspectives and forms that constitute Black Canadian women’s art today. The works in the exhibition comprise of paintings, photography, text, installations, video, augmented reality, and sculpture. The title of the exhibition refers to the overarching theme that emerges in the works – one of tending to Black histories, presents, and futures through the practice of artmaking – and the labour involved in such a practice.

This touring exhibition project is coordinated by DAWA, the regrouped collective formed in 2019.

Thank you to the Toronto Arts Council, the Ontario Arts Council, the Canada Council for the Arts, and the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora for their generous support.