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3 Works: Eddy Firmin on Decolonization
[Many thanks to Veerle Poupeye for bringing this item to our attention via Critical.Caribbean.Art.] Although the Gardiner Museum (111 Queens Park, Toronto, Canada) is temporarily closed, it is hosting online events such as “3 Works: Eddy Firmin on Decolonization.” Free with registration, this event takes place on Thursday, February 25, 2021, at 1:00pm.
In this live online event hosted by Chief Curator Sequoia Miller, artist, researcher, and speaker Eddy Firmin will discuss three of his artworks in connection to the theme “Decolonization”. Firmin’s artwork questions the transcultural logics of his identity and the power imbalances at play. On a theoretical level, he works on a “Méthode Bossale,” a proposal for the decolonization of the imaginary in art.
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Installation view.
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