SCARBOROUGH ARTS PRESENTS:
38th Annual Juried Exhibition
METAKINESIS
Every year, Scarborough Arts produces its Annual Juried Exhibition, a showcase of visual and media art created and curated in response to a themed call.
Pieces, which can be in any medium, are selected for exhibition based upon a combination of artistic quality, technical execution, conceptual strength, originality, and impact. The jury, made up of gallery and community arts professionals, changes each year.
The BIG ART BOOK is a print and online anthology of visual arts and literature, published as a companion to the Annual Juried Exhibition.
Last year’s Annual Juried Exhibition, Chrysalis, asked us “What happens next?” What happens in these moments of resilience and transformation? How do we navigate the in-betweenness of transformation?
This year, we are considering what moves us. Everything around us is constantly in motion. Growth happens slowly, while change moves fast.
METAKINESIS
Everything around us is constantly in motion. Growth happens slowly, while change moves fast. The spaces we are most familiar with often feel like they will remain the same forever when suddenly there is a shift, and nothing is the same. Houses are being put up and torn down. New transit lines are appearing as others are disappearing. People are coming, people are staying, and others are leaving. What is happening right now around you? How did you get here, and where are you going? This year’s theme invites artists to explore the idea of movement in every sense of the word and how it translates into their life experiences. This is Metakinesis (meta·ki·ne·sis: movement, in transit, to come apart).
All those selected for exhibiting will be automatically included in the Big Art Book Publication. Previous publications can be viewed here: https://issuu.com/scarborougharts/docs/babfinal-issu
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Saturday, November 18, 2023
1 pm - 3 pm
Cedar Ridge Creative Centre
RSVP to the opening reception of Metakinesis.
We are hosting visual artists, writers, and poets at Cedar Ridge Creative Centre in showcasing artworks in painting, illustration, photography, sculpture, printmaking, video, installation, poetry, and short story that respond to the theme and title of Metakinesis. Scarborough artists showed up with a beautiful array of artworks spanning visual arts, photography, and writing that we are so excited to share with the community.
This year's exhibition is juried by Megan Feheley and Rodney Diverlus, with DJing by Gnanushan “Gnanu” Krishnapillai.
This project is in partnership with The City of Toronto, Ontario Arts Council, and Delta Downsview.
2023 List of Artists
Diana Stoicescu
George Yonemori
Sonia Tao
Teresa Hall
Mikaela Cordero
Tanya Adèle Koehnke
Shennel Simpson
Jason Pagaduan
Niya Abdullahi
Lisa Hazelwood
Andria Keen
Deniz Bodi
Andrew Huot
Samila Makhdoom
Jennifer Toffoli
Blessyl Buan
Erica Dionora
Niya Abdullahi
Ruza Vatres
Alanoud Emaish
Ken Chan
Nevita Sankar
Ana Vatres
Tanisha Kumar
Meet the Metakinesis DJ
Gnanu is a community worker, part-time DJ, and beatmaker, looping and mashing his way through the archives. He rewinds and fast forwards, sampling and layering the past and the future, hoping to connect and center marginalized histories. He is inspired by his hometown of Scarborough, where he grew up watching community members engage in development, activism, and mutual aid without institutional support — traditions he hopes to carry on.
Gnanushan Krishnapillai
It's hard to describe the joy of being a passenger, staring out the window, headphones on, observing the world changing, imagining. What's your soundtrack? When your dad's driving you down Eglinton to soccer practice, or you're taking the 116 to Kennedy, or you're stuck in traffic as the whole city's behind schedule? Sometimes I can't help but score the scene around me with music. I'd love to know, what sounds do you synchronize with the raindrops racing across your window, or the sun setting over a hydro field, or a bird flying against the wind? I'm going to play some songs to try to describe that passenger feeling. A lot of ambient music, jazz, soul, and ragas - traditions where patterns transform but the themes maintain.
Curatorial Statement
Meet the Jurors
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Megan Feheley
VISUAL ARTS JUROR
Megan Feheley is an ililiw (Cree) interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto. They are currently working towards their BFA in Indigenous Visual Culture at OCAD University, and work predominately in experimental sculpture/installation, beadwork, textiles, painting, and video.
Feheley's work has been exhibited internationally in Aotearoa (New Zealand), and nationally in Toronto, Regina, North Bay, Picton and in online presentations. Feheley has had a recent solo exhibition with Xpace Cultural Centre (Toronto, 2020), and was the recipient of the 2022 Virtual Residency with Open Studio (Toronto). They also participated in an award-winning collaboration with the Royal Ontario Museum (Uncover/Recover project, 2019), for which Feheley was the recipient of the Lieutenant Governor’s Ontario Heritage Award (2019).
@meganfeheley (Instagram)
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Rodney Diverlus
WRITTEN ARTS JUROR
Rodney Diverlus (they/them) is a Haitian-Canadian multi-hyphenate artmaker and producer whose work spans the realms of live performance‑‑theatre, dance, multidisciplinary performance and media arts–film, digital media. Described by the Toronto Star as "one of Toronto's fastest rising dance talents”, their work presents, at times, flaunts emergent representations of blackness, queerness, and diasporic life and freedom. They are co-founder of Above the Palace, a Black and Brown-owned production company that produces singular stories aimed at shifting culture. They produced the film ‘Aftercare’, which had its world premiere at Toronto International Film Festival. Beyond their artistic practice, they moonlight as an artivist and community activator. They are a co-founder of Black Lives Matter—Canada, the Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism and author of Canadian bestseller “Until We are Free: Reflections on Black Lives Matter in Canada.”
@rodneydiverlus (Instagram)