هو برنامج بعدة أجزاء، يشتبك مع التعقيدات وتعدد المعاني المؤسسة لمجموعات الشتات في مونتريال، المدينة التي شكلها تاريخها الاستعماري، والهجرات، والمسارات المتداخلة ثقافياً لحاملي نسبها. يسعى البرنامج إلى خلق مساحات وموارد مستمدة من التجارب المعرفية المعاشة للمجتمعات التي غالبًا ما تُترك على هامش السرديات المؤسسية
Othered Cartographies: On Place and Presence is a multi-part public program that engages with the layered meanings, complexities, and transformative possibilities of diasporas in Montreal—a city shaped by histories of colonization, migration, and overlapping trajectories and cultural lineages. The program seeks to nurture spaces and resources informed by the lived experiences and knowledge of communities often left at the edges of institutional narratives.
This project builds on a legacy of past public programming at the Gallery—one that has long embraced critical, community-responsive approaches to knowledge-sharing and cultural work. Undertaken by artist – researcher Lynn Kodeih, the project continues this trajectory, deepening the Gallery’s commitment to practices that listen closely and act collectively.
Engaging with the communities, concerns, tensions around our present and collective futures— the Gallery acts as a space to reflect on how we live together, and how we might do so differently, foregrounding the need to unlearn colonial legacies and to imagine otherwise in relation to land, power, and community.
Read moreLynn Kodeih is born in Beirut, Lebanon, and based in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montréal since 2020. Her practice engages in a critical reflection on the politics of the image and the notions of space and borders in a world that remains deeply colonial. At the crossroads of textuality and autotheory, video and installation, her work explores materiality and accident.She adopts a decolonial and relational perspective, making visible dynamics of power and systemic violence. By questioning the impossibility of representation, her work examines dispossessed, colonized territories marked by forced displacement.
Kodeih approaches curatorial work as an extension of her artistic practice, envisioning it as a space of reflection on her concerns, in resonance with the work of artists engaged in critical processes.Since 2009, she has collaborated with various universities and art institutions, and her practice has been supported by several grants and scholarships. Kodeih holds degrees in literary studies, theatre, and visual arts from Lebanese and Canadian institutions, and her work has been presented in both national and international exhibitions
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