Exhibition
Broad/Cast: Reclaiming Representation
Encounter at Kwacha House – Halifax, 1967 (film still). Directed by Rex Tasker, produced by Barrie Howells and John Kemeny. Courtesy of the National Film Board of Canada.
Broad/Cast emerged in response to the persistent misrepresentation of Black identity in media. This exhibition offers vital and deserved space for artists who push back against dominant narratives and, in turn, set the standard for truthful depiction.
Spanning experimental and conceptual practices — seen in the works of Karen Miranda Augustine, Buseje Bailey, Christina Battle, Wendell Bruno, Erika DeFreitas Kourtney Jackson, and Rhea Storr — to documentary and historically grounded pieces by Aquakultre and Rex Tasker, the artists in Broad/Cast profoundly engage with African Nova Scotian, African Canadian, and/or global African diasporic perspectives. Through personal and dynamic explorations of race, artists in this exhibition simultaneously confront gender and class stereotypes, offering a critical yet broader lens on longstanding representational issues within lens-based media.
The Public is invited to the opening reception on Thursday, July 17, from 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm, with remarks starting at 6:30 pm. This event will feature poetry readings by Dáminí Awóyígà and a movement performance by Kay Macdonald & I’thandi Munro.
