Latin American Canadian Art Projects (LACAP)

Looking for something to do this sunny weekend?

There are only a few days left to see our current exhibition "Rooted Knots/Blended Threads"! Visit us before Saturday, July 6th to see the exhibition in person.

Missed the exhibition? You can visit our site to explore virtual exhibition!

We are open Wednesdays to Fridays, noon-6PM and Saturdays 11AM-5PM.

There are only two weeks left to see our current exhibition, 'Rooted Knots/Blended Threads', with the work of Claudia Gutiérrez, Ruth Mora Izturriaga, Ixchel Suarez, and Sarabeth Triviño! Visit us before Saturday, July 6th to experience the exhibition in person.

We are open Wednesdays to Fridays, noon-6PM and Saturdays 11AM-5PM.

Hope to see you soon!

Join us in-person on June 8th at 2PM for a curator tour with Tamara Toledo for our current exhibition "Rooted Knots/Blended Threads"! Come learn more about the exhibition, artists and ask any questions you might have!

Sign up using the link on our virtual site!

Looking for something to do this weekend?

Come visit us to see the current exhibition, "Rooted Knots/Blended Threads" with works from Claudia Gutiérrez, Ruth Mora Izturriaga, Ixchel Suarez, and Sarabeth Triviño!

We are open Wednesday-Friday, noon-6pm, and Saturday 11-5pm.

"Rooted Knots/ Blended Threads" is curated by Tamara Toledo.

To learn more about the exhibition and related programming on our virtual site!

Image: Installation view of Sarabeth Triviño's "Desierto Florido (Flowerful Desert)", 2022. Photo by Raquel Romero.

On May 23rd at 7PM EST, join us for a special lecture with artist Carolina Caycedo!

In this lecture entitled "Scintillae on Earth", Caycedo will focus on her recent works which emerge from her ongoing spiritual fieldwork and research on the eco-social activism of frontline communities impacted by the climate crisis, and the demand for a Just Transition. In opposition to the Western extractivist approach to energy production, she explores ways of being on Earth that foster sustaining and caring relationships with material and social landscapes.

Caycedo channels ancestral understandings of the scintillae (tiny sparks) that cycle from cosmos to Earth, tracing constellations of meaning through the talismanic properties of certain objects, reciprocal practices of payment, and the invaluable labor of women in sustaining community life and the environment. She proposes works with the power to protect, heal, and transmit knowledge.

Register for the lecture through our virtual site!

On May 9th at 7PM EST, join artists Ruth Mora Izturriaga and Ixchel Suarez in discussing their work in "Rooted Knots/Blended Threads"!

Get a chance to meet them virtually and ask any questions you might have about their artistic practices and the exhibition!

Register for the artist talk with the link on our virtual site.

Image 1: Ixchel Suarez, "Laurentian Forest", 2023-2024, hand-sewn, embroidered, quilted multilayered tulle with cotton, metallic threads, silk, bamboo fibre, yute, sisal, snake skins, human hair, linen, diverse yarns and natural dyes.

On May 2nd, Sur Gallery reopens with "Rooted Knot/Blended Threads"!

This exhibition aims to explore parallel frameworks between the art produced by these women textile artists and the mestiza female body which endures the complexity of racial and patriarchal oppression, forms of invisibility and exclusion, and an imposed coloniality which shapes their position and condition in Canada.

"Rooted Knots/ Blended Threads" is curated by Tamara Toledo.

To learn more about the exhibition and related programming visit our virtual site!

Sur Gallery is Hiring!

We're currently looking for new team member to take on the following role:

➡️ Collections and Database Coordinator : part-time contract (Apply by: April 26)

Think you'd be a great fit? Check out our virtual site for more information!

There are only three days left to see our current exhibition, 'Tracing Labor Territories', with the work of Anahí González, María Hoyos, Martín Rodríguez, and Victor Vargas! Visit us before Saturday, March 30th to experience the exhibition in person.

We are open Wednesdays to Fridays, noon-6PM and Saturdays 11AM-5PM. Keep in mind the gallery will be closed on Good Friday.

On March 14th at 7PM EST, join us for a special lecture with scholar and author Macarena Gómez-Barris!

In this lecture entitled "Senti-Pensando Art & Praxis", Gómez-Barris will focus on how to think beyond the colonial Anthropocene in part through senti-pensando or ecological modes of feeling and thinking that exceed the binarized form of Western knowledge production. By thinking with a range of film, media, art and performance practices, and the color, she considers anti-extractive modes of representing and imagining decolonized life.

Register for the lecture on our virtual site!

Join us online on February 22nd at 7PM for a curator tour with Tamara Toledo for our current exhibition "Tracing Labor Territories"! Come learn more about the exhibition, artists and ask any questions you might have!

Sign up on our virtual site!

On February 8th at 7PM EST, join artists Martín Rodríguez and Anahí González in discussing their work in "Tracing Labor Territories"!

Get a chance to meet them virtually and ask any questions you might have about their artistic practices and the exhibition!

Register for the artist talk here:

Artist Talk with Martín Rodríguez and Anahí González Artist talk with Martín Rodríguez and Anahí González on Zoom for the Tracing Labor Territories exhibition.

Join us at Sur Gallery tomorrow at 2PM for a curator tour with Mariza Rosales Argonza for our current exhibition "Tracing Labor Territories"! The tour will be conducted in Spanish.

Sign up here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/790524649507?aff=oddtdtcreator.

We are hard at work installing our next exhibition, “Tracing Labor Territories”, for our opening reception tomorrow, January 25th, 7-9pm! Join us for some art and snacks!

To learn more about this exhibition and our programming visit our virtual site!

Image: Installation view of "Tracing Labor Territories", details of Anahí González's "Contents Must Be Revised", 2021.

On January 25th, Sur Gallery reopens with "Tracing Labor Territories"!

This exhibition deconstructs the politicized spaces that lie between territory and labor, outlining the imperial and colonial relationship of the North and the South. Four artists listen and interpret migratory flows between borders, they shift the margins and narratives with various artistic proposals and mediums. From photography to video installation to sound art, Anahí González, María Hoyos, Martín Rodríguez, and Victor Vargas offer counter-narratives and a perspective of the migrant worker who is often marginal, silenced, exploited, and erased.

"Tracing Labor Territories" is curated by Mariza Rosales Argonza and Tamara Toledo.

To learn more about the exhibition and related programming visit our virtual site!

📣📣REMINDER 📣📣

There are only two days left until our second Ontario Arts Council - Conseil des arts de l'Ontario Exhibition Assistance Grant deadline!

Have any questions? Feel free to email us!

Join us at Sur Gallery on Saturday, November 25th at noon for a curator tour with Tamara Toledo for our current exhibition 'Diaspora Dialogues: Archiving the Familiar'!

Sign up on our virtual site!