UWAG presents Camal & Camille exhibition tour Wed Jan 24 @ 7 pm

[Ivan Jurakic]

Camal & Camille: unearth

Artist-led exhibition tour
Wednesday January 24, 7-8 pm

University of Waterloo Art Gallery
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo
East Campus Hall, Room 1239

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Following their well-received opening reception, join us for a personal tour by the collaborative duo of Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner of their current exhibition unearth, featuring photo-based artworks House of Bâby and Rocks.

Working collectively, Camal & Camille 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. Camal & Camille website<https://www.camalandcamille.com/>

Camal Pirbhai 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 website<https://www.camalpirbhaiart.com/>

Camille Turner is an artist/scholar whose work combines Afrofuturism and historical research. Her most recent explorations confront the entanglement of what is now Canada in the transatlantic trade in Africans. She puts into practice Afronautics, a methodological frame she developed to approach colonial archives from the point of view of a liberated future. She recently completed a PhD at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change and is currently a Provost’s postdoctoral fellow at University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape and Design. Turner is the recipient of the 2022 Artist Prize by the Toronto Biennial of Art. Her artworks are in numerous collections including: National Gallery of Canada, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada Council Art Bank, Museum London, The Wedge Collection, and The Rooms. Camille’s website<https://www.camilleturner.com/>

Please join us! Event is free and open to the public.

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ADMIT EVERYONE
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
East Campus Hall, Room 1239
519.888.4567 ext. 33575
Website<uwag.uwaterloo.ca>
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CONTACT
Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator
519.888.4567 ext. 46741
ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca<mailto:ijurakic at uwaterloo.ca>

HOURS
Wednesday to Saturday 12-5 pm
Or by appointment

MOBILITY
Ground floor entry
Automated door at Fine Arts entrance
Accessible washrooms on ground level
Wide pathways

DRIVING
263 Phillip Street, Waterloo
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located adjacent to Engineering 6 (E6)
Campus map<https://uwaterloo.ca/map/>

PARKING
Visitor Parking available in B Lot (E6) or Q Lot (EC1) for a flat rate of $5
Campus map<https://uwaterloo.ca/map/>

MAILING
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
200 University Avenue West
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1

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Image Credit: Camal & Camille, House of Bâby, 2021, lenticular prints mounted to aluminum frame. Photo: Scott Lee. Image description: A wide shot of a billboard-sized photograph featuring a blurred crowd scene set in the Great Hall at Union Station, Toronto.
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