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Nicolas Fleming, Darren Rigo, Waard Ward
Flowers for Shoruk Alsakni 2
Archival inkjet print
14 × 11 in.
35.6 × 27.9 cm Edition of 15

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Created through a collaboration between Waard Ward, artist Nicolas Fleming, and photographer Darren Rigo, Flowers for Shoruk Alsakni 2 documents one of the collective’s community-created bouquets.
Presented within a structure built by Fleming from recycled materials and photographed by Rigo, the work transforms an ephemeral floral arrangement into an enduring record of gathering, collaboration, and care.

In 2022, Waard Ward planted historic Damask roses during a land-based residency at the University of Toronto Scarborough, creating a gathering place in memory of public gardens destroyed in Syria. The print was later included in the Doris McCarthy Gallery’s 2024 exhibition A rose gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it, which considered displacement, the lasting effects of war on land, and the ways communities cultivate familiarity and a sense of home.

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Browse this print and more limited editions through Patel Brown LTD.

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I can’t believe that Celina Eceiza’s “A material called Earth, Volume 1: The life of corners” has already been on view for 2 weeks. It still feels like yesterday!

“Volume 1: The life of corners” is the first of a sequence of exhibitions—collectively titled “A material called Earth”—that will bring Argentine artist Celina Eceiza’s practice to Canadian audiences from coast to coast. “A material called Earth” is also a curatorial experiment that tests how migratory exhibition practices might enrich our artistic and social ecosystems and our imaginaries.  As the project moves, each volume of “A material called Earth” offers a distinct,situated story. Consequently, “A material called Earth” is anything but a touring exhibition, that quaint, tired curatorial fable with deep imperial roots—an artefact of authority-accruing, institution-advancing practices. Instead of touring, the ever-evolving itinerant project mobilizes movement and performativity to welcome audiences into intimate visual narratives woven in tender, vulnerable ways.

The project’s curatorial stance also differs categorically from the widespread institutional practice of “adapting” a project to a space and a context. Its itinerance requires us—curator and artist—to pay close attention to our every encounter (social, economic, political, material, spiritual). Only then can we bear witness to what we carry, share, and shed from one place to another—and at what cost. “A material called Earth” is about arrivals and elaborations . . . a ledger-less, accrual-shy and/and/and that carries criticality and commitment.

Subscribe to my new curatorial Substack to follow this curatorial experiment. I’ll be posting weekly insights. See link in bio.

Photos: Thank you Darren Rigo. taken in Art Gallery of Burlington by @raidendingo

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4 months ago

Images I took of new work from @reallyroda published in a @cbcarts review.

If you’re near Burlington check out the show at the @artgallburl by @raidendingo

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8 months ago

These two works are titled “Discovery”. They are part of the member survey show “Almanac” opening @g44photo tomorrow night. by @raidendingo

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2 years ago

Artist Peter Camani in his home “Midlothian Castle”.

Read about his life-long art project in the article by Andrea Yu at Macleans.ca. by @raidendingo

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2 years ago

Missing these two so much. Headed home tomorrow.

Arthur in Annandale.
Winnie in Necropolis. by @raidendingo

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2 years ago

Some recent portraits I took of very talented printmakers at @openstudio_toronto

Open Studio’s annual Future Proof fundraiser auction opens today. Go big on some amazing work via the link in their bio.

Thanks to the artists: @artistvictoriaday, @thomson.ht and @karen_kylaw! taken in Open Studio by @raidendingo

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Teaching the Low Res Photo Intensive course through @g44photo is a highlight of my year. As a group of ten, we collectively explore many approaches to photography by looking, discussing and experimenting.

Here’s some phone snaps from last year’s edition by me, @christiennecuevas and @mapotato

This year the course runs every Sunday in May and June. It’s co-taught by me and @camiillerojas. Learn more and register for one of the remaining spots at gallery44.org. taken in GALLERY 44 by @raidendingo

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2 years ago

A Paradise for Thorncliffe Park was commissioned by Waard Ward for their current show at @dmg_utsc (closing this Saturday!)

1. The main part of the exhibition centres on the memory of the garden of the Nanaa family’s former home in Syria. For this image in the facing room, we decide to balance those feelings by imagining to a hopeful, bountiful future.

2. The image is a composite of dozens of photos taken at the site of a community garden created by Waard Ward. (But most of the roses bushes are from wild roses off site, plus there are other secret bits included for viewer who take a closer look.)

3. Early version of the image real as too real in studio visits, so I actually make it look more fake, for instance doubling up balconies.

4. The harvested bush is a reference to the use of Damask Roses as an agricultural crop in Syria. The room also included ceramic by @annemcamp made for recipes with rose flower water.

5. How the actual garden looked just after it was planted in 2022. by @raidendingo

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3 years ago

Some views of Connect to Care curated by @steffitung at the OCADU Graduate Gallery. taken in OCAD U Graduate Gallery by @raidendingo

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3 years ago

Some views of “a rose gives its fragrance even to the hand that crushes it” at @dmg_utsc until March 29.

I just revisited the show and the rose bushes that were dormant at the opening are filling up with new growth!

Waard Ward invited a handful of artists to collaborate on this show which lead to a collection of new interconnected works.

Pics by Toni Hafkensheid Gallery entrance with text and work by @raidendingo

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3 years ago

Some overdue documentation of my install for @art_in_the_open.

Essentially I just made a mini version of my studio, and showed visitors how to use foraged clay, flowers, shells and seaweed to make vessels and photograms. by @raidendingo

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