Regarding Land

Regarding Land is a compelling group exhibition of video works that explores land as memory, witness, and relation. Featuring Canadian and international artists cultivating new representations of Southwest Asia and North Africa, the exhibition offers layered perspectives that move beyond conventional portrayals, considering how contemporary art engages the bonds that connect people to place.  

Grounded in personal and collective experiences of local inhabitants and diasporic communities alike, the artists employ poetic visual language to reflect on how histories of migration, resistance, and survival shapes belonging. They also gesture toward responsibility and care for the land itself, as well as for one another. Through these works, Regarding Land opens a space to reflect on how we inhabit the ground beneath us, and the histories and futures it carries. 

The exhibition features artists Jumana Emil Abboud, Mohamed Abdelkarim, Marwa Arsanios, Ali Cherri, Nada El-Omari, Batoul Faour, Rana Nazzal Hamadeh, Hiwa K, Monira Al Qadiri, Nour Ouayda, Reman Sadani, Younes Ben Slimane, Nadia Shihab, and Huda Takriti.

For Amin Alsaden's curatorial statement and descriptions of all works, see the exhibition guide available in the gallery.