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An exhibition of photographs that speaks to Halifax’s displacement of the former Africville community. Descendants of Africville were photographed standing in the location where their homes used to be. This image was then layered on an image of their current residence. The result was a dignified subject floating somewhere between past and present, between old […]

Panzós: 25 Years Later… an exhibit which toured across the Maritimes making its final stop at the Khyber, featured original painting, descriptive banners, and portrait, journalistic and forensic photography by Guatemalan artist Marlón Garcia Arriaga. The exhibit tells the story of small Guatemalan town (Panzós) and a large Canadian mining corporation (Inco) that shared an […]

Complimentary to our Ballroom programming, recent NSCAD BFA graduate Daniel Joyce uses found objects, constructing sculptures that speak to excess in contemporary North America. In The Doctor’s Secret Child a bed is created using stacks of romance novels. In Baseballrugbyfootballhorseshoebowlingsoccer a shiny, snakelike object emerges from the repetition of trophy tops.

Remakes and Readymades brought together two artists who use found materials in their practice to comment on mass production, mass-collection and re-appropriation of mass produced goods. Passmore stretches activist t-shirts on canvas frames. Massacar disassembles and reassembles push-puppet toys.