the traces that remain

The Traces That Remain explores the after-effects. The exhibition asks: what reverberating repercussions remain in the body and mind following significant events that have affected us? Are we the only ones affected? How do these traces manifest over the course of a minute, a year, a lifetime? Are they always obvious, or do they slip into the subconscious in the form of memories and nightmares? Do they always eventually become experience, resilience? Addressing these questions, this exhibition brings together artists who reflect on what lingers after the fact/the effect.

Shaya Ishaq introduces these questions through her interest in the liminality of rites of passage; Po B K Lomami fashions an intimate experiment to interrogate how grief remains; Zinnia Naqvi exposes the scars left by institutions that choose not to support visible minorities; and Lan “Florence” Yee probes the painful consequences that follow difficult situations. On top of this, The Traces That Remain also explores the form archives can take, as well as who and what is remembered.

Curated by: eunice bélidor

Featuring work from : Po B. K. Lomami + Zinnia Naqvi + Shaya Ishaq + Lan “Florence” Yee

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These Traces Will Remain, May 29th, 6:30pm

The public is invited to witness the dinner-performance.

To premiere naakita f.k.’s film miss nothing that flies or swims, the dinner-performance These Traces Will Remain will be held at the MAI café-bar. Partly inspired by The Feast (Black Wimmin Artists, AGO, 2019), International Dinner Party (Suzanne Lacy and Linda Pruess, worldwide simultaneously, 1979), and eunice bélidor and Marie Ségolène Brault’s own dinner parties, These Traces Will Remain activates the many spaces of the MAI, and extends the concept of performance by engaging with the intimate gesture of the dinner party. How do we gather, show care, have fun, and how does it sustain artistic and curatorial practices? With readings from Marilou Craft and Jamilla Touré, wine by Jordan Crosthwaite, and food by Sophie Christinel.

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Extended opening hours on May 30th + 31st until 8pm.
A new work is added to the exhibition from May 30 to June 1st: the film miss nothing that flies or swims by naakita f.k. Available in the MAI theatre during the exhibition’s opening hours.

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Come and get more infos about the works with Marguerite Chiarello, our cultural mediator of the exhibition!
Saturdays : May 11th + 25th & June 1st + 8th + 15th
Free entry | No reservations

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→ Guided visit of the exhibition with eunice bélidor
May 8th at 5:30pm
In French, for cultural workers and curators

registration

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→ Conversation with artists Shaya Ishaq, Po B K Lomami, Zinnia Naqvi and Lan “Florence” Yee hosted by eunice bélidor
May 3rd at 6:30pm
English + ASL