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Artist Tour: Otherworld

A program of:
Otherworld

Saturday, September 7
2pm–4pm
University of Toronto Art Centre
(in University College)
15 King’s College Circle

Join artist Camille Turner on a walk-through of the exhibition Otherworld. Narrated in a sequence of chapters comprising past and newly commissioned works, the walk will immerse visitors in a non-linear Afronautic journey spanning centuries and continents, through silenced pasts and awakened histories, offering places of recovery and of dreaming a liberated future.

The event is free and all are welcome. 

About the Artist

Camille Turner is an artist and scholar whose work combines Afrofuturism and historical research. Her multidisciplinary explorations, presented in major exhibitions across Canada and the U.S., confront the entanglement of what is now Canada in the transatlantic trade of enslaved people. She founded Outerregion, a collective activating archives and she collaborates with Camal Pirbhai (Camal & Camille) to create monumental artworks challenging national narratives. Turner puts into practice an Afronautic methodological framework she developed to approach colonial archives from the point of view of a liberated future.

Camille Turner is a graduate of OCAD University and recently completed a PhD at York University’s Faculty of Environmental and Urban Change. Turner is the recipient of the 2022 Artist Prize by the Toronto Biennial of Art and in 2022–24 was awarded a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship at the University of Toronto’s Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design.

Her work has been included in exhibitions across Canada and internationally, including Biennale nationale de sculpture contemporaine (2024), the Toronto Biennale of Art (TBA22), the Bonavista Biennial (2019), LandMarks2017/Repères2017, the Art Gallery of Ontario, Matadero Madrid Centre for Contemporary Creation, Vancouver Art Gallery, The Rooms, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, McMichael Gallery, Agnes Etherington Art Centre and Anchorage Museum. Her artworks are held in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada Council Art Bank, Royal Bank of Canada, Museum London, University of Guelph, Art Gallery of Guelph, The Wedge Collection and The Rooms.

Title and Page Image: Camille Turner, Sticks and Bones (still), 2023. Video, 2:59 mins. Courtesy of the artist.

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