twenty-five years swayed between our teeth. Image courtesy of Sharlene Bamboat.
AFK | Exhibitions

Never One Thing Alone

Never One Thing Alone, co-curated by Liz Ikiriko and Jaclyn Quaresma, considers intricate networks of solidarity and connection, movements of resistance, and collective action alongside the work of aka TAWLA, Dana Qaddah, Joyce Joumaa, and Sharlene Bamboat. Never One Thing Alone charts the artists' intersecting networks, which serve to strengthen one another, sometimes across borders. Finding solidarity even in the most difficult circumstances, these artists—from Cairo, Beirut, Khartoum, Vancouver, Montreal, and Toronto—are forging their own shadow paths through and against systems of colonial and capitalist extraction.

Curating this exhibition collaboratively, Liz Ikiriko and Jaclyn Quaresma look to collectives, counter-schools, and alternative modes of working that sustain us through the labor of radical transformation. The invited artists utilize immersive and experimental film, sculpture, and photobook publishing to seek common ground with love and resilience.

Join us for:

Bound Narratives | Workshop | Saturday, April 19, 2025 | 2PM-4PM

​Join hosts Roï Saade and Tamara Abdul Hadi for an engaging conversation on the role of photography and photobook making as forms of anti-colonial solidarity. Register here.

Artist Talk | Dana Qaddah & Joyce Joumaa | Moderated by Liz Ikiriko & Jaclyn Quaresma | Saturday, May 10, 2025 | 12PM-1:30PM​

Join us at the gallery on Saturday, May 10 for an artist talk with Dana Qaddah & Joyce Joumaa, moderated by Liz Ikiriko and Jaclyn Quaresma. Register here.

Curated by
Liz Ikiriko and Jaclyn Quaresma
Date / Time
April 11, 2025–
May 31, 2025
11:00AM – 5:00PM EDT
Location
Gallery TPW
170 Helens Ave Toronto ON M6H 4A1
Ramp access, accessible ground-floor washroom, and clear, unobstructed pathways within the gallery. Please note that there are no automatic doors at the entrance or washroom and no designated accessible parking nearby.

For a map to Gallery TPW, click here

(ARTISTS)

Joyce Joumaa, Roï Saade, aka TAWLA, Dana Qaddah , Sharlene Bamboat
Presented With:

Images Festival operates on land stolen from the Anishinaabe, the Chippewa, the Haudenosaunee, the Huron-Wendat, and the Mississaugas of the Credit First Nation. Tkáron:to is currently home to diverse Indigenous and Métis peoples as well as people who settle on this land. As part of Treaty 13 and the Dish With One Spoon Wampum Covenant, we acknowledge that we all eat from the same bowl and spoon, and must take only what we need, ensuring resources are available for all. 

As art workers, artists, and curators, we see the process of untangling ourselves from settler complicity as internal, structural, and ongoing. It is not something to be taken lightly. The inclusion of Indigenous artists and curators into our program is just the first step of necessary and deeper change. Extending from our organizational accountability work, we strive to not only undo forms of complicity, but also actively create an environment and infrastructure that can support Indigenous peoples who work with us. 

Images expresses our solidarity with Indigenous people on Turtle Island and globally. We are committed to continuing to learn, critique, and challenge the settler colonial structures we are complicit in.