Manuel Mathieu and Firelei Báez in Fragments of Epic Memory: Art Gallery of Ontario | Ontario, CA

1 September 2021 - 21 February 2022
Overview
Firelei Báez. Left: "Adjusting the Moon (The right to non-imperative clarities): Waning," 2019-2021. Oil and acrylic on panel, 289.6 x 198.1 x 3.8 cm. The Komal Shah & Guarav Garg Collection. Right: "Adjusting the Moon (The right to non-imperative clarities): Waxing," 2019-2020. Oil and acrylic on panel, 289.6 x 298.1 x 3.8 cm. Private Collection, Toronto, Canada. Courtesy of the artist.
Firelei Báez. Left: "Adjusting the Moon (The right to non-imperative clarities): Waning," 2019-2021. Oil and acrylic on panel, 289.6 x 198.1 x 3.8 cm. The Komal Shah & Guarav Garg Collection. Right: "Adjusting the Moon (The right to non-imperative clarities): Waxing," 2019-2020. Oil and acrylic on panel, 289.6 x 298.1 x 3.8 cm. Private Collection, Toronto, Canada. Courtesy of the artist.

Fragments of Epic Memory will invite visitors to experience the multiple ways of encountering the Caribbean and its diaspora, from the period following emancipation through today. 

 

The first exhibition organized by the AGO’s new Department of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora, it will blend historical and contemporary narratives, presenting more than 200 photographs from the AGO's Montgomery Collection of Caribbean Photographs alongside paintings, sculpture, and video works by modern and contemporary Caribbean artists that show how the region’s histories are constantly revisited and reimagined through artistic production over time.

 

Fragments of Epic Memory is curated by Julie Crooks, Curator of Arts of Global Africa and the Diaspora and will feature a new commission by Sandra Brewster and art works by Ebony G. Patterson, Frank Bowling, and Manuel Mathieu to name just a few. 

 

— Curatorial text courtesy of the Art Gallery of Ontario

 

 

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