In Dimension: Personal and Collective Narratives

In Dimension: Personal and Collective Narratives is a group exhibition bringing together works by emerging artists who participated in The Image Centre’s Poy Family Youth in Focus Program. This program provides free, customized workshops for community organizations and youth in the Toronto area, offering hands-on photography-based activities that encourage critical thinking about the IMC’s exhibitions and promote explorations of image-making and storytelling processes.
In Dimension features the works of Alishah Ahmad, Anne Balneg, Siena-heesoo Jang, Kardell McAfee, and Emiliya Volchenko, who participated in the IMC’s recent workshops “Representation as You” (2021) and “Refaced: Photography and Collage” (2023). The artists use diverse media to find common ground in autobiographical methods of artmaking, emphasizing self-reflection and exploring their singular understandings of popular culture, nostalgia, social structures, and personal emotions. Through a combination of photography, painting, illustration, and sculptural techniques, and using imagery appropriated from magazine spreads, antique photo albums, and social media, these works construct a connection between individual and collective narratives.
Contributing to the creative discourse at The Image Centre, this new generation of artists attests to the significance of lived experience, and exemplifies self-exploration as a creative process.
Guest Curators: Bryce Julien, assisted by Campbell Kaye
This exhibition is supported through the generosity of the Poy Family.