📅Exhibition Dates : Jan 23 – Feb 02 2025
👥Opening Reception: Jan 23 | 6–9 PM
📍Location: Youngplace180 Shaw Street, Toronto
For the 2025 edition, Dying.series is bringing Multiple Endings, an exhibit that aims to explore existentialism through varied art and design forms with a focus on the realms of fragility, death, dying, loss, and grief in diverse cultural contexts.
Through interactive and thought-provoking pieces, Dying.MultipleEndings engages a diversity of cultural perspectives, inviting individuals and communities to share, reflect, and connect. The exhibit sparks conversation around profound questions: What might we as individuals, and as part of multiple communities, learn from sharing experiences of death, dying, and loss? How might we encourage comfort in conversations on dying and death?
As part of the DesignTO Festival, Dying.MultipleEndings runs from January 24 to February 3, 2025, at Youngplace, Toronto, ON.
Through interactive and thought-provoking pieces, Dying.MultipleEndings engages a diversity of cultural perspectives, inviting individuals and communities to share, reflect, and connect. The exhibit sparks conversation around profound questions: What might we as individuals, and as part of multiple communities, learn from sharing experiences of death, dying, and loss? How might we encourage comfort in conversations on dying and death?
As part of the DesignTO Festival, Dying.MultipleEndings runs from January 24 to February 3, 2025, at Youngplace, Toronto, ON.
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Featuring Artists and Designers
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AGLENNCO is a queer multimedia artist who fabricates futures using printmaking, textiles, and comics. They weave science fiction and fantasy myths about alternative futures where craft and technology are so woven together that they become indistinguishable. They are interested in the ways craft informed modern technology and how craft and technology became perceived at odds with one another despite a shared history. AGLENNCO has a BFA in Illustration from Parsons School of Design and an MFA in Craft Media from Alberta University of the Arts. They now work in rural Nova Scotia.
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Through a reanimation of untold or excluded histories, and the manipulation of cultural objects and artifacts, Angela Aujla engages in a visual critique of colonial discourse and an exploration of diasporic hybridity. She is fascinated by the ways that material objects transmit culture and come to carry meaning, memory, and nostalgia, particularly in the Sikh Canadian diaspora. Angela’s work spans multiple mediums including illustration, collage, embellished photography, textile, and mixed media installations. Angela was born on the west coast of British Columbia and attended Simon Fraser University, receiving a BA and MA in Sociology and Anthropology. Alongside her practice as a visual artist, she is also a professor; her body of narrative artwork is informed by her academic focus on feminist postcolonial theory, and visual anthropology.
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Cameron is a multi-media designer and facilitator, holding a Bachelor of Design in Fashion Design from Toronto Metropolitan University. His work focuses primarily on digital design & branding, multi-media artwork and communication/facilitation roles. Through newer works, Cameron tries to draw on visual development and personal story-telling through a decolonial lens. Pushing to reconnect to his Flipinx heritage, siya attempts to portray intentional slow living or snapshots of the mundane with textile arts and painting. Siya aims to use his work to advocate for accessible resources, opportunities & education, for marginalized communities and open dialogues around what it means to live.
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Camila is a Venezuelan-born and Tkaronto-based interdisciplinary artist primarily working in textiles, drag, curation and community art. Camila's work is deeply influenced by their personal experiences and memories, especially as a child immigrant, and are committed to sustainable textile practices. They have participated in artist residencies in Latin America and Canada, and carry a rich experience as an art educator, teaching diverse individuals.
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Caroline is a Toronto based artist and designer on a mission to change urban space through colour and collaborative design and placemaking. Caroline blends her expertise in urban design, interior design, collaborative art-making and colour with her passion for social justice and community capacity building to create restorative spaces that stimulate healing and create joy. Her practice has been described as "urban alchemy" by the urbanist and author Mindy Fullilove. She holds an MA in Art History from the University of Toronto and an MS in Design & Urban Ecologies from Parsons School of Design (NYC). She has brought her collaborative design projects to Colour CAMH, SickKids Hospital, Oakville Public Library and 3rd St Men's shelter in NYC. She continues to work as an artist and experiential learning coordinator at OCAD University in Toronto, Canada.
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Chad Eby creates work, by turns stark and whimsical, that explores people’s fraught relationship with made objects and technological processes.
Eby is a Lexington Kentucky-based multidisciplinary artist, designer and educator working with light, sound and code to engage with the grain of digital technologies. Part of the faculty of University of Kentucky's School of Art and Visual Studies, Chad's work has been shown at the Tekniska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, Generative Art in Rome, Italy, New Media Fest in Valencia, Spain, CICA in Gimpo, South Korea, the Columbia College Center for Book and Paper, the Studio 300 Biennale at Transylvania University, and various local venues across the United States. He has attended competitive residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Elsewhere, and was selected for the inaugural Space Art Summer School hosted by the Russian Museum of Cosmonautics. |
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Ehiko Odeh is a multidisciplinary artist, arts facilitator, arts educator, and researcher. Through her exploration of painting, collage techniques, and textiles, she intertwines themes of neocolonialism, coiffure—encompassing the products, ingredients, and distribution across African countries. Ehiko incorporates ethnobotany into her practice to educate and promote sovereignty through the knowledge of herbalism & wellness.
Ehiko holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a minor in Creative Writing from OCAD University (2021). Ehiko is currently an Artist- In- Residence at the Living Arts Centre in Mississauga, she has garnered recognition from the Member of Parliament for Richmond Hill, Ontario(2023) and participated at the DesignTO Festival and The Artist Project (2024). Her paintings have been exhibited at Abbozzo Gallery, BAND Gallery, The Gladstone House, Xpace Cultural Centre, and Nicholas Metivier Gallery. |
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Fariba Kalantari is a visual artist. She has a PhD in cell biology from McGill University and has been a research scientist at Mount Sinai School of Medicine, NYC and McGill University Health Centre, Montreal. She is a self-educated artist working primarily with ink and acrylic, and has exhibited in several solo and group shows. She has been the recipient of artist grants from Canada Council for the Arts and Ontario Arts Council. In addition to private collections, her work has been acquired by the Art Bank collection of the Canada Council for the Arts. She lives in Ottawa, Ontario, and online at faribakalantari.com.
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The Health Design Studio works to bring an inclusive and interdisciplinary design approach to healthcare design challenges. Drawing upon long-standing collaborative partnerships with healthcare partners, the Health Design Studio supports researchers to develop designs to support health transitions, supportive and inclusive design techniques, and exemplary design with an emphasis on knowledge dissemination and mobilization. Much of our work focuses on design for safety critical and high sensitivity topics, including communication at end of life, harm reduction tools, building capacity and resilience for co-design in health, and inclusive COVID-19 information.
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Monique Campbell is a graduate of the Western Pacific Academy of Photography and has more than thirty years of experience as a photographer.
Her fine art and humanist street photography have been recognized with awards from various jurors between 2017 and 2024 at gallery juried exhibitions. Highlights include the Women's Art Association of Hamilton awarding her “Best in Show” for her image, Abandoned Chesterfield #2 exhibited at the Art Gallery of Hamilton in 2023. She was chosen as one of 52 finalists out of 2256 artists in 2021-2022 by the Salt Spring National Art Prize for her photograph Venetian Laundry Day. One of her photographic series is “Rest in Peace,” in which she travels locally and abroad to photograph cemeteries. This work comforts her as she remembers her loved ones and strangers alike who have passed on. |
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Narges Porsandekhial (she/her) is a Persian polydisciplinary creator with a BA in Handicrafts and an MFA from University of Saskatchewan. Her work spans installation, socially engaged practices, public art, text-based projects, and the realm of research-creation. She wishes to draw parallels between art and research (in the theoretical and academic sense) and embrace how they cohabit, similar to art and daily life. She has exhibited her work both nationally and internationally and also serves as an art administrator.
Narges explores the repetition of daily life activities through conceptual and social lenses, addressing mental health issues and engaging in institutional critique. Her work centres on repetition as both a tactile and methodical process, offering refuge from life’s uncertainties through a ritualistic approach to art-making. Drawing inspiration from the feminist practice of Autotheory, Narges tries to address the “uncomfortable” by sharing intimate thoughts in public spaces. |
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Ræ Azzopardi (they/them), also known as MORTVL is a multidisciplinary artist and designer based in Cambridge. They studied illustration at OCAD U and acquired a bachelor of Design with honors. The subject matter of their work contemplates duality, nature, technology, mental health, life cycles, and identity by juxtaposing the beautiful with the horrific. Ræ creates experiences and visuals as a communicative device for when words are at a loss. They display sentient beings revealing their innards, expressing their vulnerability to the one thing we are all guaranteed after we are born: death.
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Raechel Wastesicoot (Bonomo) is a mixed Kanyen’kehá:ka multidisciplinary artist and public art community builder. Following a teaching passed down to her: from the land, for the land, and by the land, her contemporary beadwork style features upcycled, vintage, and harvested materials. The land and sustainability is at the centre of her practice. The work Raechel creates aims to have as minimal an impact on the environment as possible, often highlighting gifts from the land, including antler, fur, hides, and porcupine quills. She is also passionate about building and healing community through public art praxis and engagement, and is experienced in facilitating beading circles and workshops both in person and virtually.
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Sahar Askary is a Toronto-based multimedia artist from Iran whose work spans photo, video, textile, and installation. Her art explores memory, identity, and place, using auto-ethnographic approaches to reflect on personal narratives shaped by displacement and the fragility of cultural heritage.
She holds a BA in Photography from Tehran University of Art (2018) and an MFA in Documentary Media from Toronto Metropolitan University (2020). Sahar has exhibited her work in Canada and internationally and received awards, including the Newcomer Arts Award (2022). Her recent residency at The Ray Ferris Creative Tech Springboard (2023) showcased her piece Breaktime. Through her practice, she fosters reflection on how identity evolves through memory and place, inviting conversations on belonging and loss. |
