February 24 @ 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Saturday February 24, 2024
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Free with registration
Join Sarah Edo, Gardiner Museum Curatorial Resident, for an exploration of Genealogies of Sustenance. Focusing both on the artists’ works and the thematic connections to the contemporary and ceramics arts landscape, this tour will also engage Edo’s unique research experience in preparation for this exhibition. Gain insight into her curatorial process and research, and learn more about the artists and artworks in the show.
The Gardiner Museum Curatorial Residency is made possible through the generous support of the Rebanks Family.
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General : Free
About the Exhibition
Genealogies of Sustenance explores experimental and traditional craft forms and techniques that meditate on themes of sustenance, ancestral and embodied memory, as well as plant life stories across regions in Africa and the Black diaspora. The exhibition brings together ceramic installations and film by Chiedza Pasipanodya, Mallory Lowe Mpoka, and Zainab Aliyu, artists whose visual and conceptual strategies sew together threads of hybridity, abundance, and transformative imagination. Learn more
About the Curator
Sarah Edo
Sarah Edo is an emerging curator, researcher, and cultural worker born and based in Tkaronto/Toronto. Her practice and research orbit themes of Black visual and material cultures and queer diasporic sensibilities. Her creative and cultural pursuits are guided and grounded by her experiences in community work and collective study. Edo holds a Masters in Gender Studies from the University of Toronto, and has a range of curatorial and project coordination experience. Edo has organized with 1919Mag, a print magazine and multimedia platform for Black cultural production and political education. She has held project coordination roles with arts collective Diasporic African Women Artists (DAWA) and plant medicine school Seed Soil Spirit. Edo has curated exhibits and programs with BAND Gallery (2022), Images Film Festival (2023), Whippersnapper Gallery (2023) and most recently, through her Curatorial Residency at the Gardiner Museum (2024). Her art writing has been featured in Studio Magazine, BlackFlash Magazine, CMag, and 1919Mag. Edo recently joined the Toronto Biennial of Art team as a Curatorial Fellow, Programs.