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Some 150 years later, Canadian photographer Yuri Dojc explores the northern end of the "Underground Railroad," presenting 24 images of descendants of once-enslaved African Americans.

The pandemic has impacted all industries. Art Galleries have been closed through out 2020, WWR will try to unveil how they navigated this challenging period, which is not over yet, how they adapted and how they plan to continue.

Mathieu’s painterly work reflects on the fraught history of Haiti, on diasporic identity, and on the writings of Frantz Fanon. Danticat’s novels and non-fiction works explore autobiographical threads relating to her experience of Haiti’s dual dictatorships.

Haitian-Canadian artist Manuel Mathieu creates visually-rich and multi-layered artworks, in an ever-broadening range of media, which examine and interrogate the complex history of his family homeland. 

Such interesting conversation about the important role of archives in  contemporary photography. 

Una  conversación muy interesante sobre el importante rol de los archivos en la fotografía contemporánea. 

Desde Toronto hablamos con Santiago Bengolea sobre la situación actual,   proyectos del pasado y los q están por venir! La pasamos muy bien!   

Gracias por esta charla divertida y por pensar que esta pandemia puede   ser también una nueva oportunidad!   

Gaëtane Verna, Director of the Power Plant, & Gabriela Rangel, Artistic Director Malba Museum.   

A powerful talk about art, the impact of the pandemic in their personal  lives and their practices, their view on the future of museum  exhibitions and much more...

Marta Minujin, the “quintessential” Argentine Artist talks about art,  success, bumpy rides in her life and the current pandemic with Curator  of Toronto’s Art Biennial, Tairone Bastien.

Marta Minujin, la artista argentina "por excelencia", habla sobre el  arte, el éxito, los viajes, los baches en su vida y la pandemia actual  con el curador de la Bienal de Arte de Toronto.Tairone Bastien.

Pablo La Padula, fascina con su capacidad para desmarcarse de las etiquetas, como puede moverse con naturalidad entre campos distantes, que su trabajo y pensamiento logran fusionar. 

Biólogo y artista, docente e investigador, mezcla su erudición con intervenciones poéticas sobre la realidad mediante la consolidación de su propio método. 

In this WWR Conversation Series, Tairone Bastien interviews Eduardo Navarro. In these video series Tairone walks us through Eduardo’s extensive body of works and artistic practice and discovers an artist who’s as intriguing as his works. 

Tairone Bastien, was born in Vancouver and lives and works in Toronto, Canada.

Eduardo Navarro was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he still lives and works.

A conversation between 2 great personalities from the argentinian and  canadian artistic and cultural scene, exchanging experiences, talking  about the artistic practice, the current situation and what's coming.

Julia  Converti, Directora General de ArteBA, nos cuenta la decisión que  tomaron para esta edición Nº 29 de la Feria 2020, en cuarentena.

Gabriela Jurevicius entrevista a Florencia Malbrán y hacen homenaje a Grete Stern, Marta Minujín y Mónica Girón.

Desde su taller, la escultora Nicola Costantino nos muestra el proceso de la cerámica Nerikomi, técnica japonesa.

The Power Plant: Interview with Manuel Mathieu.

The Power Plant presents 'World Discovered Under Other Skies', Manuel Mathieu's first institutional exhibition in Toronto.

Diperro's aesthetic pursuit draws heavily from the research on functionalism and the fusion of the artistic and the decorative into a total art that the Bauhaus so radically raised to our contemporaneity.

Ha trabajado meticulosamente en una particular dinámica de análisis entre la tensión de rígidas estructuras  que ella misma disuelve en las ondulantes formas programa sensible Latinoamericano..  

Quién!! Instalacion participativa en las Cuevas de Altamira, España

Andrea Juan invita a mirarnos en los artistas del pasado para recuperar  nuestro presente.  

Entre el Cielo y la Tierra / Entre le Ciel et la Terre

Her work reveals a hybrid human shape in continuous movement, a blurred image that flows like a graceful breathing cycle.

Matías de la Guerra Quarantined resident / Matías de la Guerra Résident en quarantaine

Matías de la Guerra es un artista que participa de Residencia en "Zona Imaginaria", dentro del proyecto: Quien puede vivir en esta casa.

Galia Eibenschutz en casa / Galia Eibenschutz chez elle

Mexican visual artist, Galia Eibenschutz, talks about her latest  exhibition with YYZ. Galia's work combines performance, dance, and video  to explore sculptural elements of the human body.

Performance action with emergency survival blanket, video by Maria Hupfield

Con estas dos series, “Fracciones” y “Entre líneas”  Ana Casal comparte la intimidad que se desprende de sus fotografías para que el espectador se apropie de la historia. 

Ximena Berecochea presents her latest collaboration with AVA Animation and Martha Romero, based on Robertson Davies novel, Fifth Business. Video produced by YYZ Artist Outlet and ICE. Music by Matias Alanis.

The pandemic was a creative boom for me. I was in my home in Argentina. I dared to immerse myself in the waters of my unconscious, also to navigate different processes of artmaking. I got into a lot of experimentation and playing, accompanied by a lot of personal introspection. 

The primary subjects of Quesada´s work are movement, light, abstraction and soft, blurry lines. These ingredients are all important, because she looks for the hidden beauty in people, nature, shadows or reflections, changing the perception of reality, by blurring the sense of scale. 

 La muestra fotográfica busca restituir las raíces africanas a través de imágenes recuperadas que dan cuenta de la diversidad de la comunidad afroargentina. 

Dedicated to muralism and illustration, La Loica has done collective and social work. Participated in various Urban Art festivals throughout Chile, Argentina, Peru, Uruguay and Canada.

Asymmetrical and unique forms are Duarte’s signature. 

He sews and  paints each piece energetically and manually. His handcrafted creations  are product of his eccentric and disquisitive vision. His work  juxtaposes forests, an allusion to his Indigenous roots, and the  concrete of bustling metropolises.

    "Ante el inminente arribo del covid-19 a  nuestras vidas, y la idea de una cuarentena prolongada, me vi en la  necesidad de retomar mi producción habitual al punto de entenderla,  casi como una acción terapéutica de cara a este nuevo contexto en el  que nos vimos involucrados todos como sociedad. "

    "Despite this period of lacking creativity, I am lucky enough to be working on an ongoing series that has already been planned out pre-COVID-19. This new series is concerned with archiving, pattern generation, and tracing lines through my personal history."

  "En estos momentos alejada de mi estudio, trabajo dentro de mi hogar.

Con lo que tengo más a mano, mi cuerpo.

Como sostén y objeto fotográfico que me permite expresar y comunicar.

Transformándolo en un canal de expresión, sentido."

"In my work I try to take a minimalistic and refined approach while having an obvious subject that stands out from its background. By limiting the number of distractions in the frame, it really forces viewer to see what I want to show them."

 Desde que comenzó la cuarentena vinieron a mi cabeza muchas obras que, aun sin haberlo querido, ponen en imagen aquello que resulta por momentos redundante nombrar, porque en efecto todo esto es un poco irreal y muchxs no logramos salir de la perplejidad que nos genera este tiempo.  

Our work practices will change direction after this pandemic. We will have to rethink ourselves, work and the world. 

After this Dantesque and global crisis new ideas will emerge (they are already emerging), an option can be opened for a more solidary and egalitarian world, for a greater concern for all sectors of society, for society as a whole. 

(post pandemia covid-19) 

Cuando retornemos, sugiere a que volveremos a lo conocido. ¿Volveremos a algo conocido? Pensar que conozco lo que nos va a pasar es una ilusión que sugiere que nos espera algún tipo de certeza que nos dará tranquilidad. Imaginarnos que volver a ocupar los lugares anteriores va a alcanzar, ya no nos sirve.