THE EXCESS IS RITUAL
DUNLOP GALLERY, REGINA 
JANUARY 21- APRIL 4,2023

​​"male figure" & "female figure holding child".  Collages printed on Russian Plywood. Anna Binta Diallo, 2021.
Photo : Courtesy of VAC

the excess is ritual
Guest curated by Noor Bhangu

With Damien Ajavon, Darcie Bernhardt & Carmel Farahbakhsh, Anna Binta Diallo, Sahar Jamili, and Dan Taulapapa McMullin.
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Image credit: Anna Binta Diallo, The Charmer, from The Wanderings series, digital collage printed on Phototex adhesive fabric, 2021.

the excess is ritual returns to histories of excess from a pluralistic range of positions and experiences, to generate new readings and relations within queer contemporary art. It features artists and thinkers who draw on the repertoire of rituals, which have become marginalized and silenced through colonial and homocolonial history. Using the metaphor of excess, this exhibition hopes to visualize all that has been lost and all that can be recovered.

Artist projects centre aesthetics of queer life, queer history, and cross-cultural relation, as they are brought together to confront Western fantasies of progress and order. Under the curatorial umbrella of queer and relational, works will comment on the afterlife of racism in diaspora, the imagined intimacies of ancestors, and the survivance of non-binary identities through the histories of settler colonialism. Moving across specific contexts and questions, we consider what it means to centre queer and relational practices, pleasures, and desires in art.