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curated by Soheila Esfahani

Michael ManChoi Chow, Andrea Filiatrault, Elizabeth Forrest, Wen Li, Nancy Peng, Barry Smylie

January 1-31, 2025
Art On The Wall
Martin Luther University College
Laurier University, Waterloo, ON

In a multicultural society such as Canada, many people live in-between cultures and inevitably participate in cultural translation. Within the framework of cultural theory, the act of translation is the negotiation arising from encounters of various social groups with different cultural traditions. Furthermore, cultural translation destabilizes the notion of an originary culture and opens up the space of negotiation called the third space.* This curatorial project asks artists to reflect on how they define culture and what it means to live in the third space and negotiate cultural variance. If artists are cultural producers, how do they represent culture in their work? What are some of the ways we connect to other cultures and possibly live in liminal or in-between spaces?

* The terms cultural translation and the third space are coined by Homi K. Bhabha in his book The Location of Culture.

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