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shapeshifter

Anna Binta Diallo, Shapeshifter, Nuit Blanche Toronto, 2022 (Yonge & Shuter)
Photographer: Sam Javanrouh

Installation
Toronto - Toronto, ON
Intersection: Yonge St & Shuter St
Sept 30, 2022 - Oct 02, 2022 

Commissioned by Nuit Blanche Toronto, Shapeshifter is a series of sculptural works that expands the investigation into folklore, history, personal mythology, and how identity constantly fluctuates.

Shapeshifter: described as one that seems able to change form or identity at will, or a mythical figure that can assume different forms, as of animals (Merriam-Webster). The works within Shapeshifter continue to expand on folklore, language, history, and transcultural identity. By assembling imagery from a diverse set of archival sources, this series takes the form of a large-scale, immersive installation of sculptural works, interspersed along a path in downtown Toronto. With Shapeshifter, Diallo explores how in different situations people often transform themselves as they are always intertwined in their own histories. They mutate, morph, and are constantly shapeshifting, and as such, they might seem to float on alone like dust particles in space, but together are bound by time. 

ACKNOWLEDGEMETNS
The Aabijijiwan New Media Lab, directed by Dr. Nagam.
Toronto Regional Real Estate Board

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Anna Binta Diallo is represented by Towards Gallery.
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The artist gratefully acknowledges support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
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      • CIRCLE DANCE - DANSE EN CERCLE / 2022
      • FROM THE EARTH WE GROW / 2021
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      • VOYAGEUR / ALMANAC - BAMAKO ENCOUNTERS - 2023
      • VOYAGEUR / ALMANAC - DAKAR BIENNALE OFF - 2022
      • VOYAGEUR / ALMANAC - AGM / 2023
      • VOYAGEUR / ALMANAC - UWAG / 2022
      • VOYAGEUR / ALMANAC - TOWARDS 2022
      • VOYAGEUR / ALMANAC - CONTEMPORARY CALGARY / 2022
      • VOYAGEUR / ORBITS / ALMANAC / 2021
      • ALMANACS / 2020
    • WANDERINGS / 2021-2022 >
      • ERRANCES - UN RETOUR - MCCL / 2022
      • WANDERINGS - SOA GALLERY / 2021
      • WANDERINGS - MUSEUM LONDON / 2021
      • WANDERINGS / 2019-2022 >
        • WANDERINGS - ACCESS GALLERY / 2020
        • WANDERINGS 2020 / JOURNEY TO THE HEARTLANDS
        • WANDERINGS - À L'ÉPREUVE / 2020
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        • WANDERINGS - TOWARDS / 2019
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        • HABITER LE MONDE / 2021
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        • neither nor / 2014
        • in between / 2013
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          • negotiations / mfa thesis / book / 2013
          • negotiations II / 2013
          • negotiations I / 2012
        • NOSTALGIA / 2011 >
          • nostalgia videos / 2012
          • are these yours / 2012
          • nostalgia collages / 2011
      • WORK / 2010-2013 >
        • clouding the sky / 2014
        • cataclysmes / 2013
        • intimate places forbidden spaces / 2013
        • wallpaper / 2011
        • yobballem'a / 2010
      • WORK / 2004-2009 >
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