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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;color:black">Camal & Camille: unearth</span><span style="mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">January 11 - March 9, 2024</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="font-size:14.0pt;color:black">Opening Reception: Thursday, January 11, 5-8 pm</span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Camal & Camille</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">unearth</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">The gallery is proud to welcome the collaborative duo of
<b>Camal Pirbhai </b>and <b>Camille Turner</b>, whose new exhibition <i>unearth</i> includes recent photo-based artworks
<i>House of Bâby</i> (2021) and <i>Rocks</i> (2021-2023). These works explore the passage of time and memory, in the process of excavating the hidden history of people of colour in Canada.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">House of Bâby</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> is a large lenticular image portraying eighteen Black and Indigenous people claimed as property by the prominent Bâby family of Windsor, Detroit and
Toronto. This work was originally commissioned for Artworx TO for display in the Great Hall at Union Station, the same location that appears in the image. When viewed from different angles
<i>House of Bâby</i> reveals the ghostly presence of these historically erased individuals emerging from the past, lingering in the present amidst the blur of contemporary commuters and urban travellers passing through the nexus of Union Station.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Rocks</span></i><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> stages an encounter between humans and primordial beings that envelop all they encounter during their long, slow transition cycles. Rocks represent deep time
on a geological or cosmic scale. They contain stories that date back to a time long before humans and stretch towards infinity. Following Camal & Camille’s earlier body of work
<i>Wanted </i>(2017), <i>Rocks</i> similarly developed out of Camille’s <i>Afronautic Research Lab</i>, in this particular case her research on slave ships constructed on Canada’s eastern seaboard. Rocks from the same coastal areas would have been used as ballast
on these ships. When the ships sailed to the United Kingdom to be registered, and then on to West Africa to participate in the trade of humans, these same rocks were dumped out onto African shores so that their intended cargo, people, could be loaded into
the ships’ holds. These ships, and the people held in captivity in the holds are long gone but the rocks are present day witnesses that remember and transmit the stories of these past crimes.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Working collectively, <b>Camal & Camille</b> bring together their wide range of experiences and skills to create artworks in a variety of media that emerge from their shared concerns such as: unsilencing histories,
confronting social myths, and engaging with the mysteries of deep time. Camal & Camille are represented by Central Art Garage, Ottawa.
<a href="https://www.camalandcamille.com/">Camal & Camille website</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Camal Pirbhai</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> was raised in Switzerland and trained as a couturier in soft furnishings in the UK. Drawing from his expertise fabricating large-scale textile projects,
hand-sewn curtains and intricate embellishments, Camal has evolved a multidisciplinary artistic practice exploring a wide array of materials, media and processes such as: sculpture, fibre, installation, painting, performance and media art. His conceptually
glamorous works have been shown in museums including the McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Textile Museum of Canada, and the Gardiner Museum of Ceramic Art. Camal’s collaborations with Camille Turner include the artworks
<i>Wanted</i>, <i>Family Matters</i>, <i>House of Bâby, </i>and<i> Rocks</i>. <a href="https://www.camalpirbhaiart.com/">
Camal’s website</a> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Camille Turner</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"> explores home and belonging in many forms spanning a variety of media such as photography, video, performance, and social practice art. She is the
founder of <a href="https://www.camilleturner.com/outerregion">Outerregion</a>, a research lab researching Black memory and creating the afro future. Camille’s most recent works respond to the erasure of 400 years of Black history from the Canadian landscape.
Her sonic walks <i>HUSH HARBOUR</i> and <i>The Resistance of Peggy Pompadour</i> use digital media to reimagine sites of Black memory. Artworks such as
<i>Wanted</i>, <i>Family Matters</i>, <i>House of Bâby, </i>and<i> Rocks</i>, created in collaboration with Camal Pirbhai, are embodied archives that perform Black freedom in Canada’s past.
<a href="https://www.camilleturner.com/">Camille’s website</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">ADMIT EVERYONE</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
East Campus Hall, Room 1239<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 33575<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">CONTACT</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 46741<br>
<a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" title="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Ground floor entry<br>
Automated door at Fine Arts entrance<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">DRIVING</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo<br>
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located adjacent to Engineering 6 (E6)<br>
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Visitor Parking available in B Lot (E6) or Q Lot (EC1) for a flat rate of $5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">MAILING</span></b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
200 University Avenue West<br>
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<b><span style="color:#7F7F7F">Image Credits</span></b><span style="color:#7F7F7F">: Camal & Camille,
<i>Rocks </i>(composite of<i> Untitled 2 </i>and<i> Untitled 3</i>),<i> </i>2021-23, black and white photos printed on vinyl. Images courtesy of the artists.
<b>Image descriptions:</b> On the left, a young black man looks towards the viewer with a rock hoisted on his back like a backpack. The image on the right is of a young black woman with her eyes closed and a rock nestled within a braided updo.</span></p>
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