ArtworxTO – HOME(LAND): Bodies of Water

EXHIBITION: September 22 to December 31, 2021

HOME(LAND): Bodies of Water examined water as the first element we came to know, as it gently cradled us and holds us. Water is one of the four primary elements from which all of life is created, along with fire, air and earth.  Water is a predominant and vital element that connects us to the land and to one another.    

The works selected for this exhibition explore the element of water and its different means in unique emotional, spiritual, cultural and socio-political ways intersecting with different cultural notions, and belief systems from a perspective of belonging, collective resilience and resistance. Projects on display included:

  • Bloody Boats: Infinite Journeys 2.0 - Akshata Naik
  • When The Sky Meets The Ocean - Akshata Naik
  • Voyage I - Akshata Naik
  • Elegy For Souls On Hold - Mirna Chacín
  • The Green Summit - by Shabnam Afrand
  • My Blue Series - Peter Owusu-Ansah
  • Water and Land Protection Banners - Onaman Collective (Christi Belcourt + Isaac Murdock)
  • Community Is . . . (Cloverdale) - Hiba Abdallah

EXHIBITION: September 22 to December 31, 2021

About the Exhibition
HOME(LAND) was a series of three multimedia exhibitions examining how concepts of land
intersect and dialogue with the fluid, and shifting characteristics of identity, belonging,
and home across and between races, regions, cultures, and nations with connections to
the four elemental energies from which all of life is created, water, fire, air and earth.