VISUAL ART AND OTHER ENCOUNTERS
IN TRANSIT
A series of installations and activities curated by Mitra Fakrashrafi
In Transit responds to existing and deepening divides in Toronto, especially those shaped by transportation infrastructures with long histories of connecting and fracturing communities. Playing on the language commonly associated with delivery services, In Transit links mobility networks such as roads and rails to questions of work, housing, food security, and other disparate spatial organizings of our lives.
Imagining otherwise, artists and organizers Jessica Kirk, L. Akhter, and Sarom Rho use public art to explore how people navigate and confront these divides and the systems which maintain alienation and isolation in the city. Through photography, poetry, installation, and posters, the artworks placed across the city invite visitors and passerby alike to nurture labour justice in the gig economy, in care work, and in our bodies themselves.
On Saturday May 21st, join In Transit artists, organizers, and curator for day-long activities in Dentonia Park.
MITRA FAKHRASHRAFI
Beginning in street art, Mitra Fakhrashrafi is an independent curator interested in creating places of sanctuary and indebted to border abolition organizing. Mapping the legacies of colonial infrastructure and the resistance which has always followed ground and guide her work. Working alongside artists and organizers, she has exhibited in artist-run centres and galleries including Xpace Cultural Centre, the Art Gallery of Guelph, The Textile Museum of Canada, and La Centrale galerie Powerhouse. Mitra is chair of Whippersnapper Gallery’s Board of Director’s and was recently awarded the 2021 Middlebrook Prize for Young Canadian Curator’s. In her spare time she listens to music that emerges from Toronto; a since-always queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and diasporic city.
