Humber Galleries

We want to learn together! As we move forward into the Winter 2019 semester, Humber Galleries is exploring ways of working together, exchanging ideas, and learning collaboratively in relation to our exhibitions.

Our February exhibition The Breadth of Distance, curated by Alize Zorlutuna across both our North Space and L Space galleries, addresses how elsewheres live in our bodies. Elsewheres are present with us: in familiar scents and flavours, in partial recollections, in the weight of the past.

Bringing together photography, video, installation, and sculpture, these artworks shift across geographies, cultural perspectives, and time. Considering grief, longing, care and resilience, they articulate how relationships to place, representation, and belief shape who we are and how we move in the present.

This exhibition asks us to reckon with how we came to be here on this land. Whether we are Indigenous, multi-generational settlers, or recent immigrants, our current moment demands we think through how we might build mutual understanding and empathy while recognizing our many differences.

The galleries are a place for everyone to learn and experiment through art from our many different perspectives. Art is polytechnic learning: both a way to gain practical skills for many intersecting trades, and a way to think through difficult ideas and possible futures. We welcome the insight and experience of students and faculty from all of Humber College’s programs (and neighbours in our communities, too).

Please reach out to Acting Curator Danica Evering at danica.evering@humber.ca if you're interested in starting a conversation!