The Artwork Museum on the College of Toronto is proud to current “Otherworld,” the primary main institutional solo exhibition in Canada by acclaimed artist Camille Turner, from September 4, 2024 to March 22, 2025 on the College of Toronto Artwork Centre. The exhibition showcases a compelling physique of latest works, together with new commissions that uncover Canada’s position within the transatlantic slave commerce and its lasting repercussions. The museum’s new prolonged viewing interval aligns with an intention to nurture deeper year-round engagement with guests.

“Camille Turner’s work challenges us to rethink our understanding of historical past and to make use of our creativeness to ascertain worlds in any other case. “Otherworld” is a name to ponder, to grieve, and to dream new futures into being. The exhibition dates, which now replicate the educational calendar, may also encourage deeper contemplation via enhanced programming. Guests will have the ability to foster a extra profound, ongoing reference to the work via a number of visits.”
— Barbara Fischer, curator and Artwork Museum govt director

The exhibition title “Otherworld“ comes from the artist’s afronautic analysis methodology, which focuses on journeys by water and house that convey collectively Afrofuturism, important storytelling, and Black radical creativeness with a view to present an embodied strategy to addressing historic gaps, absences, fissures, and silences. Turner’s methodology as an artist immerses audiences in a non-linear journey that transcends space-time boundaries. Her work makes seen the erasure of Black expertise and affords an area to dream of extra equitable futures.

The Artwork Museum commissioned two new movies, Maria and Fly, named after ships in-built Newfoundland and deployed within the 18th-century slave commerce, symbolizing a haunting connection between Canada’s maritime historical past and the atrocities of the transatlantic slave commerce. The exhibition additionally options two new installations of pictures and artifacts titled Portals and Pods for Dreaming, that are nested amongst older works produced by the artist and her collaborators. Whereas Portals seems to be on the haunted areas the place the ghostly residue of colonial violence nonetheless lingers, Pods for Dreaming affords a peaceable house of respite for guests to loosen up. Public programming will embrace activating the Afronautic Analysis Lab (2016–current), a counter archive that gives guests an opportunity to take part within the ongoing analysis of Black historical past.

Born in Kingston, Jamaica, and presently dwelling and dealing between Los Angeles and Costa Rica, Turner is well known for her transformative examination of Black historical past within the Canadian nationwide narrative. The artist works in efficiency, pictures, set up, digital and sonic media, typically in collaboration with others.

“Otherworld” continues the Artwork Museum’s long-standing engagement with artists who create counter-histories via their work. Current solo exhibitions on the museum embrace Deanna Bowen’s God of Gods: A Canadian Play, Kent Monkman’s Disgrace and Prejudice: A Story of Resilience, and Alanis Obomsawin’s The Youngsters Must Hear One other Story. These exhibitions all challenged dominant narratives and supplied new views on historical past and identification.

at Art Museum, Toronto
till March 22, 2025