Curated by: Courtnay McFarlane

The video Hogan’s Alley (1994) by Andrea Fatona and Cornelia Wyngaarden documents the history of Hogan’s Alley – “an unofficial name for the T shaped intersections forming the core of Vancouver’s first concentrated Black community” 1 – between 1930 and the late 1960s. Mining municipal, CBC and personal archives, this work remembers individuals who lived in the community, as well as its institutions, hard social realities, and cultural richness. Acknowledging Black oral traditions, Hogan’s Alley centers on the embodied archive – the memories shared by the three women it features. The tales of their lives illuminate not only “their identities, but also the identities of a disappeared community”2. In documenting the previously unrecorded history of Hogan’s Alley, this work has served as an important catalyst for further artistic explorations and commemorative initiatives of this community.

The community that Rose-Ann Bailey documents in her photographic series (2011 –2013) is not one of geography but of affinity – a shared Black LGBTQ identity and membership in its dancehall scene. In the absence of community-owned and dedicated bars/clubs, and presented with relentless gentrification, the scene has been carved out by promoters/DJs who migrate across Toronto’s downtown creating safe spaces for gathering, being and connecting across myriad intersections of identity. The self-posed photo booth portraits feature individuals expressively styled, asserting agency and kinship, documenting transient lives and impermanent communal spaces.

The works in this exhibition testify to the precarity and resilience of Black communities, and the ways in which our artistic and archival practices resist the forces of structural erasure and un-remembering.

Presented by Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue (BAND) Gallery with the support of TD Bank and in partnership with Legacies in Motion: Black LGBTQ Archives.
Located at 19 Brock Ave Toronto, Canada.

Visit their website to RSVP to upcoming virtual programming

https://www.bandgallery.com/current-exhibitions-and-events/bhmjointsjunctions

Thursday, January 28, 2021 6:00 PM
Monday, March 29, 2021 5:00 PM

All sales of any images will go directly to the Black Coalition for AIDS Prevention

http://www.blackcap.ca/page.php?u=/about/who-we-are

Print details and prices

Red Carpet Promotions – June 2012 (Pasa Hype, Katalia) – Unframed 16”x20”
Giclée Archival prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $400.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Red Carpet Promotions – December 2011 (Pasa Hype, Katalia) – Unframed 16”x20” Giclée Archival prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $400.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Red Carpet Promotions – June 2012 (Katalia) – Unframed 16”x20”
Giclée Archival prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $400.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Blaze – February 2012 (Chino, Alex and Darren) – Unframed 16”x20”
Giclée Archival prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $400.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Red Carpet Promotions – February 2012 (Cassidy Noir) – Unframed 16”x20”
Giclée Archival prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $400.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Red Carpet Promotions – August 2011 (Tkay Bourne and Crew) – Unframed 16”x20” Giclée Archival prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $400.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Red Carpet Promotions – December 2011 (Coco – 2020) – Unframed 16”x20”
Giclée Archival prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $400.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Open Minded Polly – January 2013 (Pandoraz Boxx) – Unframed 16”x20”
Giclée Archival prints BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $400.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Blaze – January 2013 (Passa Hype, Rowle, Sumaya Dalmar (2016) – Unframed 16”x20” Giclée fine art prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $500.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Red Carpet Promotions – December 2012 (Nifa Fittaz) – Unframed 16”x20”
Giclée fine art prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $500.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

Blaze – June 2013 (Sumaya Dalmar (2015) and Prince Bradshaw (2019) – Unframed 16”x20”
Giclée fine art prints on BFK Paper (Edition 1/25) – $500.00
Photographic Paper – Pearl (Edition 1/25) – $200.00

If interested in purchasing prints, they are print to order. Please contact me via my website contact section and indicate the size and format you desire. Thank you in advance for your support.