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Bamako in Toronto at Gladstone Hotel

Toronto Event Date: Thu, June 03, 2010 – Mon, August 02, 2010

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1214 Queen Street West
Toronto, ON M6J 1J6

416-531-4635

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Bamako in Toronto

A new generation of photographers capture a contemporary Africa
Co-presented by Volcano Theatre (www.volcano.ca) with the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre, Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, Autograph ABP, and The Gladstone Hotel.

Opening at The Gladstone Hotel on Thursday June 3rd, Bamako in Toronto features an exquisite sampling of images from photographers Zanele Muholi (South Africa), Uche Okpa-Iroha (Nigeria), and Saidou Dicko (Burkina Faso). This is a rare opportunity to catch a glimpse of contemporary Africa as seen through the lenses of three of Africa’s hottest photographers.

Curated by Mark Sealy, Director of London’s Autograph ABP Agency, Bamako in Toronto is timed to coincide with Volcano Theatre\’s The Africa Trilogy: a three-continent theatrical collaboration premiering at Luminato 2010.

Bamako in Toronto takes its name from one of Africa’s largest and most compelling photography exhibitions, Rencontres de Bamako. This bi-annual event showcases a wide range of African talent, and prides itself on its broad inclusion of mature and up-and-coming contemporary artists from across the continent.

Ryerson University MFA graduate, Zanele Muholi, is one of the featured photographers in the Bamako in Toronto exhibition. Her collection titled Being, explores and challenges the politics of African representation in visual art. Through her exploration of love, intimacy, and pleasure among South Africa’s lesbian community, Muholi’s work aims to bring this specific community into focus and national consciousness. Being will be featured exclusively on the third floor of The Gladstone Hotel.

Uche Okpa-Iroha’s Under Bridge Life features a unique look at the complex urban life in Lagos, Nigeria. Okpa-Iroha’s series looks at this distinctive itinerant community, theatrically lit up through a beam of light that shines between the two overpasses that roof the community below. Saidou Dicko’s Mosaique Monde is a collection that documents life on African streets quite unconventionally through the use of shadows, silhouettes, and urban backdrops. Both of these collections will be exhibited on the fourth floor of The Gladstone Hotel.

Bamako in Toronto is proudly co-presented by Volcano (www.volcano.ca) with the Ryerson Gallery and Research Centre, Luminato, Toronto Festival of Arts and Creativity, Autograph ABP, and The Gladstone Hotel, with generous support from the Ontario Trillium Foundation, and with the cooperation of the Michael Stevenson Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

Bamako in Toronto.
At The Gladstone Hotel (third and fourth floor) from June 3rd-August 2nd
12pm-5pm daily. Free.
Further Information: www.volcano.ca and www.luminato.com

Join us at the opening reception June 3rd, 7pm-9pm
Reception is RSVP only. Please email chrissi@volcano.ca to RSVP.



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