https://alexandramajerus.com www.alexandramajerus.com Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:56:29 +0000 https://alexandramajerus.com en https://alexandramajerus.com/Logo-my-name Sun, 06 Feb 2022 15:40:10 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/Logo-my-name https://alexandramajerus.com/Thumbnails-1 Fri, 01 Apr 2022 15:05:24 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/Thumbnails-1 https://alexandramajerus.com/Thumbnails-2-Older-Work Fri, 01 Apr 2022 19:35:54 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/Thumbnails-2-Older-Work https://alexandramajerus.com/Info-1 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:44:29 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/Info-1 a.s.majerus@gmail.com Alexandra Majerus (aka Alex, aka Sandy) is a multidisciplinary lens-based artist. With a half-Caribbean background that can be traced for 400 years through multiple islands in the anglo-Caribbean, she has migrated repeatedly between Barbados and Canada, lived in France for five years and spends time in Cuba. Her practice as a whole examines the Caribbean from the perspective of a transcultural person living in Toronto. It varies from the political to more personal but there is always an intersection in which she explores meaning, power structures, identity and how that connects to the larger geopolitical context we live in. Her practice uses tools, such as opacity and subversion, found in the Caribbean critical theory of Edouard Glissant and Stuart Hall. An IAMD MFA 2017 graduate from OCAD University, her thesis investigated the culture and history of Caribbean countries and their diasporas within their frameworks of colonialism and forms of neo-colonialism, in particular tourism, through the lens of the landscape. Majerus explored the dynamics of subjectivity and agency that lie between the constructed perception of the Caribbean as Paradise that comes from the history of tourism and the everyday lived experience of the people in that very same landscape of “paradise”. Her more personal artwork frequently looks at the meaning of home to explore family, class, notions of taste, migration and loss. Majerus has exhibited in Canada, Barbados, the Bahamas, Grenada, Trinidad, Bulgaria, Portugal and Paraguay. She is also the Director of Unpack Studio Art Projects &amp; Havana Residency. <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/efcfee9995fd2e6914f093d2c84e4655cee8d04171be0ac2c34b0696f7caa263/IMG_3821.jpg" data-mid="135340934" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/efcfee9995fd2e6914f093d2c84e4655cee8d04171be0ac2c34b0696f7caa263/IMG_3821.jpg" /> https://alexandramajerus.com/Curriculum-Vitae Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:29:50 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/Curriculum-Vitae Education 2017 2010 MFA studio, Interdisciplinary Master’s in Art, Media and Design, OCAD University Bachelor of Fine Arts: Visual Arts Studio (Honours) cum laude, York University, Toronto &nbsp; Selected Exhibitions 2026 2025 20242023 20222021 2020 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 Through Her Lens: Caribbean Image Makers,&nbsp;Puerto Rican Arts Alliance (PRAA), Chicago, USA Archives. Labocine, January 2026 Issue The Shape of Memory, Modern Fuel, Canada La Pluma y la Espada. La Casa de la Salamandra, Collateral Exhibition, Havana BiennialTransoceanic Visual Exchange, Fresh Milk, Barbados and Centre for Culture, Lublin, PolandThe Return, Gladstone House an archive is an archive is an archive, Der Greif Guest Room: Franziska Kunze A Return to Foul Bay, Member’s Gallery, Gallery 44Transit, Members’ Exhibition, Gallery 44 Carmichael Canadian Landscape Exhibition: Tradition Transformed, Orillia Museum of Art &amp; History, Canada Lumière Unama'ki | Cape Breton, Nova ScotiaPhotobook Awards EI 2020, Encontros da Imagen, Galeria do Paço da UMinho, PortugalThe Persistent Evidence, Samara Contemporary, Toronto Come up to my Room, Gladstone Hotel, TorontoTD Wealth - Thor Wealth Management Art Prize, Quest Art, Midland, Canad The View from (T)here, Magic Pony, TorontoThames Art Gallery Juried Art Exhibition, juried by Kendra Ainsworth, Chatham, Canada Carifesta XIII, Barbados The Bridge, Grenada Contemporary, Grande Anse, Grenada Facade Video Festival, Plovdiv, BulgariaGrito de Libertad, Bienal Internacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay Transforming Spaces, National Art Gallery of Bahamas, Nassau, Bahamas Tracings: Recent work from W5Art Collective, curated by Pamela Edmonds, WARC Gallery, Toronto, CanadaAesthetic Objects of Desire, Contact Photo Festival, Unpack Studio, Toronto Dystopias on Art &amp; Technology, e-fagia event'13 curated by Julieta María and Arlan Londoño, Gallery 1313, Toronto Facade Video Festival, Plovdiv, Bulgaria trinidad+tobago film / 12 festival - New Media, Medulla Art Gallery, Port of Spain, Trinidad Grants 2025 2024 2021 2019 2017 2014 2012 Visual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts CouncilOntario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Ontario Arts Council Exhibition AssistanceResearch and Creation Grant, Canada Council for the ArtsVisual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts CouncilVisual Artists Creation Projects Grant, Ontario Arts CouncilTravel Grant to Media Arts Professionals, Canada Council for the ArtsOntario Arts Council Exhibition AssistanceOntario Arts Council Arts Education Grant as a member of W5Art Collective Awards 2023 2021 2020 2018 2016 2015 2010 2009 2006 2005 Special Mention, Annual Urbanautica Institute AwardShortlisted, Annual Urbanautica Institute AwardSpecial Mention, Annual Urbanautica Institute AwardJuror Prize National Merit, TD Wealth - Thor Wealth Management Group, Quest Art GalleryOntario Graduate ScholarshipOCADu - Dean's ScholarshipOCADu - Dean's ScholarshipBMO 1st Art Nomination in PhotographyYork University Continuing Student ScholarshipTwo Bronze awards (Photography), NIFCA, BarbadosOne Silver award, Two Bronze awards (Photography), NIFCA, Barbados Residencies, Talks and Publications 2025 2024 2023 2022 2019 2018 2017 2016 2013 2009 Virtual Artist Talk, Modern Fuel, Kingston, Canada Avant-Femme/Avant-Garde, L’AIR Arts Curated Professional Program, Atelier 11 Cité Falguière, Paris, France Women’s Residency coordinated by April Hickox, Gibraltar Point Residency Instagram takeover, Womens’ Photo Alliance NYC @wpanyc Feminist Photography Network Island ResidencyIn This Place, Humanities Arts and Society Magazine Outside In, University of Arts London and OCADu Online ConferenceDynasty, Feels Zine Issue 09: Aging Island Time 02 Artist Residency, 2 Rooms Contemporary Art Projects, Newfoundland Artist Talk, The View from (T)here, University of Toronto Visual Strategies, Toronto Island Time 01 Artist Residency, Artscape Gibraltar Point, Toronto IslandsArtist Talk, Instituto Superior des Artes, Havana, CubaArtist Residency and Talk, Alice Yard, Port of Spain, TrinidadWorktable Participant, Symposium on Decolonial Aesthetics from the Americas, organized by e-fagia in collaboration with FUSE Magazine and Justina M. Barnicke Gallery / Hart House, University of Toronto, Toronto Artist Talk, Aesthetic Objects of Desire, Unpack Studio, Toronto Artist Talk, Dystopias on Art &amp; Technology, Gallery 1313, TorontoSync Resist, edited by Alex FischerDissecting the Narrative, AGYU Professional Experience 2016-26 2026 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 2020-24 2018-212015-202013-262012-16 2011-15 Director, Unpack Studio Havana Art Residency: an evolving Toronto/Havana art-based platform. Juror, Selections Committee Syphons-Resistance, Modern Fuel Special Event and Fundraising Committee, Gallery 44, TorontoBoard Member, Gallery 44, TorontoJuror, Exhibition Programming Committee Member, Gallery 44, TorontoMember. Gallery 44Director, Unpack Studio, an evolving art-based Toronto/Havana art-based platform. Managed a Toronto-based independent studio space co-curated and organized events: The Glass Between by Rebecca Belmore, as part of Decolonial Aesthetics from the Americas 8 by Björn Kämmerer, as part of Images Festival 2013Ilusionada by Jesus Gastell – exhibit, talk, residency and workshop From Mouth to Mouth by Maryam Taghavi &amp; Zoya HonarmandAfter the Embrace by Agustin Rojas – exhibit, talk and workshopjä be jä – collective exhibitionI can’t sleep by Jose Andres Mora as part of Nuit Blanche 2014, Lecture by Cuban curator Dannys Montes de Oca &amp; artist Ossain RaggiConversation with Adriano Alves Pinto, Executive Director of the International Contemporary Art Festival SESC_Videobrasil, in collaboration with e-fagiaCountermodels workshop in collaboration with Gendai GalleryHosted No Reading After the Internet – Decolonial AestheticsW5Art Collective. Members: Alexandra Gelis, Buseje Bailey, Grace Channer, Margarita Macdonald and Alexandra Majerus &nbsp; https://alexandramajerus.com/The-New-Classics Wed, 29 Jul 2026 12:56:29 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/The-New-Classics The New Classics (2026) <img width="667" height="1000" width_o="667" height_o="1000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/414f1c3edbac6d3c3781a62d7e341ea293d2468bac4c8571603f135d87b3e232/_DSC3254_layers.jpg" data-mid="250813021" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/667/i/414f1c3edbac6d3c3781a62d7e341ea293d2468bac4c8571603f135d87b3e232/_DSC3254_layers.jpg" /> <img width="3722" height="5571" width_o="3722" height_o="5571" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a99a6880b7c46890ed1218983e615060432b4a3ee0943f80cad64628b95db72/_DSC3260_layers.jpg" data-mid="250813702" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a99a6880b7c46890ed1218983e615060432b4a3ee0943f80cad64628b95db72/_DSC3260_layers.jpg" /> <img width="4000" height="6000" width_o="4000" height_o="6000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/de787e1bed459486165f4d9353066683fdb09155d6cf57ea4759df1ee9e968a0/_DSC3264_layers.jpg" data-mid="250858420" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/de787e1bed459486165f4d9353066683fdb09155d6cf57ea4759df1ee9e968a0/_DSC3264_layers.jpg" /> https://alexandramajerus.com/The-classics-can-console-But-not-enough Tue, 14 Nov 2023 17:37:55 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/The-classics-can-console-But-not-enough The classics can console. But not enough (2024) While working on a collaborative project about the monument, I became acutely aware, as a woman, of my disconnect to the history of monuments so frequently representing the so-called heroic, power and war and that less monuments of women and women's stories exist. In lieu of the predominantly patriarchal understanding of the heroic, "The classics can console. But not enough" re-presents monumental events or influences that I have experienced in my life, such as the profound influence of growing up on a small island surrounded by water has had upon me, growing up white in a country that is 95% Afro-Caribbean, migration and the meaning of home and family, the aging process, the fact that I never had children when society expects children as a norm, and caring for other women as a nurse. The title comes from Derek Walcott's poem Sea Grapes. Recognizing the male dominance in the Caribbean literature canon, nevertheless, to me as a Caribbean person, this line encapsulates the re-centering of stories of the Caribbean. In his writing, Walcott made connections between the Greek Isles and the Caribbean archipelago reframing the islands from insular and irrelevant to interconnected -island to island to mainland and bridges the cosmopolitan intersection of ancient cultures in Greece that arguably birthed Western civilization, to the centrality of the more recent Caribbean, with its complex history of colonization, slavery, race and tourism, in the making of the modern Western world. A series of now countries that were influenced by Europe and colonialism but were equally influenced by Amerindians, people from various African nations, India, China, the Middle East to become something new, something creole. By exerting my own creolized, transcultural, female place into a historical art timeline -collapsing space and time-, this series subverts the Eurocentric and male-oriented history of monuments. In this series of self-portraits, I adapt the poses of ancient Greek statues such as Nike (Victory) adjusting her sandal c 410-450 BCE or Hermes and the infant Dionysus 4th BCE and still lives which include props to reference “monumental”influences in my life: a conch shell, sea eggs, a large linen table cloth that belonged to my maternal Caribbean grandmother, a pineapple - a symbol of hospitality, coral, a piece of limestone that I took from a landslide in Barbados and PPE. In my continued exploration of landscape as a metaphor for identity, place and history, the images are layered with photographs from my archive of the sky, sea, sand and foliage in Barbados. An example of an installation of The classics can console. But not enough at the Puerto Rican Art Alliance in Chicago, USA may be seen here. <img width="577" height="106" width_o="577" height_o="106" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ded83bb72d8bde54481af1b87ad909c7278518be2a0e342081852b3de234981f/CCA_RGB_colour_e.jpg" data-mid="196851514" border="0" data-scale="98" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/577/i/ded83bb72d8bde54481af1b87ad909c7278518be2a0e342081852b3de234981f/CCA_RGB_colour_e.jpg" /> This artwork was generously supported by a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation grant. <img width="801" height="1200" width_o="801" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ee840beae3218d935388625eed062d7b81ea282ec1b8837b7e58cbfc577ec1e4/_DSC2140_layers.jpg" data-mid="196977902" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/801/i/ee840beae3218d935388625eed062d7b81ea282ec1b8837b7e58cbfc577ec1e4/_DSC2140_layers.jpg" /> <img width="857" height="1200" width_o="857" height_o="1200" 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Shoeboxes of heavily damaged family photos from the 1980s - printed with poor quality one-hour printing - made it to her list. The print quality combined with the intense tropical humidity mean that the images are damaged by mildew and stuck together. Now a collection of small uneven bricks, they contain the narrative of my youth, portraying family and friends -a number of whom are no longer alive -and landscapes of a more isolated, pre-internet time on the island, a time that no longer exists. Even if carefully peeled apart, many of the images are only partially legible with ink transferred onto the backs of others or mottled by mildew, abstracted and oddly beautiful. Artist Talk below. <img width="400" height="101" width_o="400" height_o="101" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bdf207f9e826d13ce96443a7555e13e29a767a8dc88333978c4b1f94aa68f178/2014-OAC-BK-JPG-logo-copy.jpg" data-mid="210049522" border="0" data-scale="79" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/400/i/bdf207f9e826d13ce96443a7555e13e29a767a8dc88333978c4b1f94aa68f178/2014-OAC-BK-JPG-logo-copy.jpg" />This artwork was generously supported by an Ontario Arts Council Visual Artists Creation Project grant. 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f1cd3306eed9d28037d5198f33e29b46d1243b390109769cd618ca789fca80e1/Majerus_07.jpg" data-mid="210049529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/f1cd3306eed9d28037d5198f33e29b46d1243b390109769cd618ca789fca80e1/Majerus_07.jpg" /> The Shape of Memory explores the elusive meaning of home, how we perceive the past and recreate memories through photographs. It considers what it means to not have any visual mementos of your life. What do lost and illegible photographs represent, particularly when the concept of home becomes ambiguous? How do images become memories in themselves? How do these damaged images become a metaphor of the imperfection of human memory? The unpeeling, layering and reconstruction of the "photo bricks" tells a story of loss due to migration and climate that is common to many islanders and migrants. The Shape of Memory (Constructing) <img width="1500" height="1002" width_o="1500" height_o="1002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69dcfb90c78bf1684a9ab672cbbe748c1289e21795a22dca5f76c5043a0f1e9d/Majerus_11.jpg" data-mid="210049533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69dcfb90c78bf1684a9ab672cbbe748c1289e21795a22dca5f76c5043a0f1e9d/Majerus_11.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0e16ae531bc76f84388c52b0f4e3d6ece3b27084f88b45dc0345038e3d0ccdd/Majerus_12.jpg" data-mid="210049534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0e16ae531bc76f84388c52b0f4e3d6ece3b27084f88b45dc0345038e3d0ccdd/Majerus_12.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1002" width_o="1500" height_o="1002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd95fad3dbfc17daa5346b55bfebf8bbf748c06f17417422c7ba263fa97c46cf/Majerus_13.jpg" data-mid="210049535" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd95fad3dbfc17daa5346b55bfebf8bbf748c06f17417422c7ba263fa97c46cf/Majerus_13.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d80dc40a10f4aafe6604acedf5716cdcaf30b7ce7e35f4b3c99daa8da0bcab5/Majerus_14.jpg" data-mid="210049536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d80dc40a10f4aafe6604acedf5716cdcaf30b7ce7e35f4b3c99daa8da0bcab5/Majerus_14.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="999" width_o="1500" height_o="999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0eba19bd0147d5a756a4dcc37afde373e28aa84cdc5ecff9f3c13c8a393831bc/Majerus_15.jpg" data-mid="210049537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0eba19bd0147d5a756a4dcc37afde373e28aa84cdc5ecff9f3c13c8a393831bc/Majerus_15.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1002" width_o="1500" height_o="1002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/69dcfb90c78bf1684a9ab672cbbe748c1289e21795a22dca5f76c5043a0f1e9d/Majerus_11.jpg" data-mid="210049533" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/69dcfb90c78bf1684a9ab672cbbe748c1289e21795a22dca5f76c5043a0f1e9d/Majerus_11.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b0e16ae531bc76f84388c52b0f4e3d6ece3b27084f88b45dc0345038e3d0ccdd/Majerus_12.jpg" data-mid="210049534" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b0e16ae531bc76f84388c52b0f4e3d6ece3b27084f88b45dc0345038e3d0ccdd/Majerus_12.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1002" width_o="1500" height_o="1002" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cd95fad3dbfc17daa5346b55bfebf8bbf748c06f17417422c7ba263fa97c46cf/Majerus_13.jpg" data-mid="210049535" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cd95fad3dbfc17daa5346b55bfebf8bbf748c06f17417422c7ba263fa97c46cf/Majerus_13.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8d80dc40a10f4aafe6604acedf5716cdcaf30b7ce7e35f4b3c99daa8da0bcab5/Majerus_14.jpg" data-mid="210049536" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8d80dc40a10f4aafe6604acedf5716cdcaf30b7ce7e35f4b3c99daa8da0bcab5/Majerus_14.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="999" width_o="1500" height_o="999" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0eba19bd0147d5a756a4dcc37afde373e28aa84cdc5ecff9f3c13c8a393831bc/Majerus_15.jpg" data-mid="210049537" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0eba19bd0147d5a756a4dcc37afde373e28aa84cdc5ecff9f3c13c8a393831bc/Majerus_15.jpg" /> The Shape of Memory comprises four sections: Fragments, Constructing, Traces and Recollecting, which function independently or together as interdependent series. Fragments consists of several enlarged scans of the archival family photographs paired with photo collages and abstracted drawings of my family tree located throughout the Caribbean based on my DNA. Fragments mimics how our memories can be lucid at moments and completely inaccurate at others pairing memories together incorrectly. Constructing is a series of 15 images of photo-sculptures in which I use the stuck together photographs to reconstruct half-forgotten memories and create new memories. Traces is a series of 15 images of the backs of the photographs, which told as much story as the fronts. Parts of different images transferred onto the backs as they became stuck due to humidity. My mother's handwriting could be seen regularly noting the event, the date and sometimes the names of the people found in the photograph. Traces honours women who are often the archivists of families, keeping track of events, documenting the stories of their families.&nbsp; Recollecting is a contemplative video of the images being pulled apart. The Shape of Memory (Traces) <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c738254368f01029fc41afc88afd0512756dd4cdf118126b833863ce9433eaf/Majerus_16.jpg" data-mid="210049538" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c738254368f01029fc41afc88afd0512756dd4cdf118126b833863ce9433eaf/Majerus_16.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1265356a3594ba0e293943c5809fd2acfa36e235b0836976552e35b222275af9/Majerus_17.jpg" data-mid="210049539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1265356a3594ba0e293943c5809fd2acfa36e235b0836976552e35b222275af9/Majerus_17.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84860fa678161538942935680a2e1d6e0522073dafdb59e5aecba7408e14ba62/Majerus_18.jpg" data-mid="210049540" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84860fa678161538942935680a2e1d6e0522073dafdb59e5aecba7408e14ba62/Majerus_18.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e32def18441bd4769368ee91b3bc330ae9ed2604d515f1cf4c533f83ad3360a4/Majerus_19.jpg" data-mid="210049541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e32def18441bd4769368ee91b3bc330ae9ed2604d515f1cf4c533f83ad3360a4/Majerus_19.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0ffa07d49e2cc8ab15339e6436952834f661e75ec6c3dc357d1fd06dae674ec/Majerus_20.jpg" data-mid="210049542" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0ffa07d49e2cc8ab15339e6436952834f661e75ec6c3dc357d1fd06dae674ec/Majerus_20.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8c738254368f01029fc41afc88afd0512756dd4cdf118126b833863ce9433eaf/Majerus_16.jpg" data-mid="210049538" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8c738254368f01029fc41afc88afd0512756dd4cdf118126b833863ce9433eaf/Majerus_16.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/1265356a3594ba0e293943c5809fd2acfa36e235b0836976552e35b222275af9/Majerus_17.jpg" data-mid="210049539" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/1265356a3594ba0e293943c5809fd2acfa36e235b0836976552e35b222275af9/Majerus_17.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84860fa678161538942935680a2e1d6e0522073dafdb59e5aecba7408e14ba62/Majerus_18.jpg" data-mid="210049540" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84860fa678161538942935680a2e1d6e0522073dafdb59e5aecba7408e14ba62/Majerus_18.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e32def18441bd4769368ee91b3bc330ae9ed2604d515f1cf4c533f83ad3360a4/Majerus_19.jpg" data-mid="210049541" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e32def18441bd4769368ee91b3bc330ae9ed2604d515f1cf4c533f83ad3360a4/Majerus_19.jpg" /> <img width="1500" height="1001" width_o="1500" height_o="1001" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a0ffa07d49e2cc8ab15339e6436952834f661e75ec6c3dc357d1fd06dae674ec/Majerus_20.jpg" data-mid="210049542" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a0ffa07d49e2cc8ab15339e6436952834f661e75ec6c3dc357d1fd06dae674ec/Majerus_20.jpg" /> https://alexandramajerus.com/The-Shape-of-Memory-Tilting Mon, 22 Apr 2024 20:02:52 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/The-Shape-of-Memory-Tilting The Shape of Memory (Tilted Photos) An exploration of The Shape of Memory (Constructing) at the Model Gallery.&nbsp; The exhibiton looks at the dialogue between objects and photographs of objects that has long interested me. With a nod to Richard Serra’s Tilted Spheres so familiar to many Torontonians as they travel through Terminal 1 at Toronto Pearson airport. Like Serra’s massive installation, it invites viewers to consider the space that photographs hold within culture in terms of the dominance the visual has on our perception of the world, the importance we place on images within our culture and the fragility of photographs whether through the decline of analogue photos or the over-abundance of digital images. <img width="2666" height="2000" width_o="2666" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/87a8f7755c8b1e174d5562e3fe88167ad45c6618c5266a422fe75a0c0bbb560f/IMG_2710.jpg" data-mid="209525883" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/87a8f7755c8b1e174d5562e3fe88167ad45c6618c5266a422fe75a0c0bbb560f/IMG_2710.jpg" /> <img width="2666" height="2000" width_o="2666" height_o="2000" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66e2ad8c2aa1afe30913d34b481285f42276dc600b9cbd2909413f2ba953a636/IMG_2694.jpg" data-mid="209525880" border="0" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0364e57d2bce516330c88bc6b273b9fb7be8373610048a4e797a3e391357cc6f/A2C35EE7-7176-4C40-8AF6-35F3DC9E47A3.JPG" data-mid="209525879" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0364e57d2bce516330c88bc6b273b9fb7be8373610048a4e797a3e391357cc6f/A2C35EE7-7176-4C40-8AF6-35F3DC9E47A3.JPG" /> https://alexandramajerus.com/A-Return-to-Foul-Bay Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:07:12 +0000 www.alexandramajerus.com https://alexandramajerus.com/A-Return-to-Foul-Bay A Return to Foul Bay (2020) A diagnosis of metastasized cancer, more calls than in the previous two years, two trips down to Barbados with my brother to see my father, doctor’s visits, closing up his business there, and death - all in the space of two months. During that time, the last place that my father requested to go before he was unable to leave the house was to Foul Bay to spend a quiet afternoon lying on the sand in the shade of a tree. We sat for hours doing nothing really. <img width="1075" height="611" width_o="1075" height_o="611" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/476f4b713330b953770fb9cbfd84f4e891202f4ef434104e94ed215fe310413f/Majerus_FoulBay01.jpg" data-mid="135248104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/476f4b713330b953770fb9cbfd84f4e891202f4ef434104e94ed215fe310413f/Majerus_FoulBay01.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1563" width_o="2500" height_o="1563" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/4b0790610c7e2f13a70b2fd252a0d2f411c1f37ce0d906f4952592b336f429d3/Majerus_FoulBay22.jpg" data-mid="135248383" border="0" data-scale="87" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/4b0790610c7e2f13a70b2fd252a0d2f411c1f37ce0d906f4952592b336f429d3/Majerus_FoulBay22.jpg" /> I returned to Foul Bay four years later to document and explore the large beach ringed by low cliffs. The isolated beach is located in St Philip off the tourist path on an island greatly dominated by tourism. The beach has no amenities, no bar, no restaurant, no chairs, no umbrellas, no beach sweepers, no lifeguard, the sea can be rough and there is one portable washroom and a standpipe. It feels remote with only a handful of locals sometimes just sitting in their cars, having a drink, catching the breeze, a few fisherman and the odd individual swimming. In my continued exploration of landscape as metaphor for place, history and identity, I captured the length of the bay. It is easy to look back at the place that was home and idealize it. Similarly when someone close passes away, one tends to consider the good times. A Return to Foul Bay is both a returning to the land and a looking back at my father’s life but, instead, it strives to present the beauty, the “ugly”, the improvised, the passage of time, loss and growth. The photographs reflect upon not only the loss of a parent but also the loss of a home as I lose my familial connections to the land. The body of work is presented either as a photobook or a series of up to 35 photographs loosely installed in a dispersed salon-style manner in order to create a contemplative space in which the viewer may traverse the beach in their own time/space. A Return to Foul Bay also takes on travel photography and/or the coffee table book and travel magazine - constructs in themselves of idealized space— to problematize the fictitious “Caribbean as paradise” which usually ignores the people living in the space. Two examples of installations may be seen here: &nbsp;Members’ Gallery, Gallery 44, Toronto, Canada&nbsp; and Return, Gladstone House, Toronto, Canada <img width="3376" height="4220" width_o="3376" height_o="4220" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e048a245bbae9a820938308cb943247131d4c948a63bf12e0e07cfcc8a708b89/Majerus_FoulBay08.jpg" data-mid="135248369" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e048a245bbae9a820938308cb943247131d4c948a63bf12e0e07cfcc8a708b89/Majerus_FoulBay08.jpg" /> <img width="1280" height="1600" width_o="1280" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/d5868aefca7c1e6e5a3774ff2b7c470e95d060f1c9d1e7d39099f72d663531c0/Majerus_FoulBay02.jpg" data-mid="135248363" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/d5868aefca7c1e6e5a3774ff2b7c470e95d060f1c9d1e7d39099f72d663531c0/Majerus_FoulBay02.jpg" /> <img width="2500" height="1407" width_o="2500" height_o="1407" 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