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June 21 - June 29, 2022

Spaces of Conflict and Contemplation

DMG @ Cedar Ridge Creative Centre Curatorial Mentorship Program exhibition

Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, 225 Confederation Drive, Scarborough

Works by Mahin Fatima, Mortasha Ho Tung Chan, Millan Khurana, Bryan Lai, and Ashley Narine

Curated by Sofia Suleman, Undergraduate student, Department of Arts, Culture, & Media, U of T Scarborough

Spaces of Conflict and Contemplation is a student-curated exhibition that brings together recent works by University of Toronto Scarborough Studio Art students, presented together for the first time at the Cedar Ridge Creative Centre.

Varying in media from painting, photography, digital media, and light installation, the works are produced out of deep reflections on the lives and circumstances of the artists. In conversation with one another, they communicate ideas, experiences, and events from the past and present that are ever evolving and liminal. The artists engage with intersecting concepts of self-reflection, hybridity, as well as reflections on elements of light and space. Their works provoke connections and contemplations about human experiences of identity, conflict, self-reflection, as well as the interplay between private and public spaces.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

Spaces of Conflict and Contemplation is the ninth in a series of annual student exhibitions presented in partnership between Cedar Ridge Creative Centre and the Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, as part of the DMG @ Cedar Ridge Creative Centre Curatorial Program. The exhibition is the culmination of a curatorial internship at the Doris McCarthy Gallery by a student or recent graduate of the University of Toronto Scarborough.

Ashley Narine, Losing Focus, 2022. Image description: A portrait consisting of a person's face and shoulders, too blurry for any features to be recognizable. Over the area of their eyes are two white Xs. The background is mottled dark yellow, with some areas of light pink.
Ashley Narine, Losing Focus, 2022. Image description: A portrait consisting of a person's face and shoulders, too blurry for any features to be recognizable. Over the area of their eyes are two white Xs. The background is mottled dark yellow, with some areas of light pink.
Ashley Narine, Losing Focus, 2022. Image description: A portrait consisting of a person's face and shoulders, too blurry for any features to be recognizable. Over the area of their eyes are two white Xs. The background is mottled dark yellow, with some areas of light pink.
Ashley Narine, Losing Focus, 2022. Image description: A portrait consisting of a person's face and shoulders, too blurry for any features to be recognizable. Over the area of their eyes are two white Xs. The background is mottled dark yellow, with some areas of light pink.