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Architectures of Protection

May 24, 2025 - October 26, 2025 Curated by Dr. Toby Lawrence, AGGV Curator of Contemporary Art

Architectures of Protection reflects on ideas and modes of protection and refuge – with regards to oneself, to community, knowledge, culture, identity, and land. What are these spaces and practices? What is protection for some and not for others? Together, in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic and in the current global social and political climate, the artworks in Architectures of Protection direct critical attention towards systems and structures that shape and impact everyday and sacred environments and encounters, alongside individual and collective relationships with the land.

This exhibition features artworks by Dana Claxton, Jessica Karuhanga, Emilio Rojas, Beth Stuart, and France Trépanier.

As part of this exhibition, Emilio Rojas will present The first boundary is the flesh, a 4-hour durational art performance on June 18, 2025, from 5pm-9pm.
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Image Credits: Jessica Karuhanga, being who you are there is no other, 2018, two-channel video projection. Photo courtesy of KWAG, by Toni Hafkenscheid. Jessica Karuhanga: Blue as the insides, Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, 8 April - 6 August 2023 | Beth Stuart, Delible (blackberry), detail, 2024, plaster, iron oxide pigment, dyed silk, steel, sumi ink. Collection of Folger Rubinoff, Toronto. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid, courtesy of Susan Hobbs Gallery. | Beth Stuart, Delible (poppy, watermelon, wheat, walnut, blackberry), installation view, 2024. Photo by Toni Hafkenscheid, courtesy of Susan Hobbs Gallery.
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