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scores for failed structures of the private

Eve Tagny is a Tiohti:àke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory inscribed with the dynamics of power, colonial histories, and their legacies. 

scores for failed structures of the private, a new body of work created while in residence at Ace Hotel Toronto, explores how concepts of private ownership and privacy are foundational to Western racialized notions of the civilized, modern human being. Through gestures and embodied expressions, Eve calls this underpinning into question: how do these fraught foundations predetermine our relationships to nature, labor, sustenance and intimacy in urbanized spaces?

Credits: 

Direction: Eve Tagny

Choreography and performance: Nyda Kwasowsky

Screenprinting: Pudy Tong 

Framing: The Gilder

Photo printing: Gallery 44

The artist would like to acknowledge and thank: Images Festival (Jaclyn, Camille, Magdalyn, Kai), Nyda Kwasowsky, Michael Nyarkoh, Open Studios (Rebecca, Pudy, Rachael), Gallery 44 (Alana, Daniel, Miora, Heather, Leila), Ace Hotel Toronto, Cooper Cole gallery, The Gilder, Royal Del Sol, Noor, Nour, Brian, Jocelyn, Simon, Liz, Zinnia, Cleo, Sarah, C41, Graination. 

Curated by
Jaclyn Quaresma
Date / Time
February 15, 2024–
May 11, 2024
Gallery Hours

Tuesday-Thursday

4 PM-12 AM

Friday-Saturday

4 PM-1 AM

Location
Ace Hotel Toronto

51 Camden St, Toronto, ON M5V 1V2

Street level entrance, elevator and ramp available. Accessible gender neutral and single occupancy washroom with automatic door.

For a map to Ace Hotel Toronto, click here

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Eve Tagny
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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.