Back River – Sonia Bazar

In association with Sonia Bazar’s solo exhibition at Museum of Jewish Montreal, the McClure Gallery presents two events with the artist:

Back River Cemetery: Pathways of Time and Space

‘Jane’s Walk’ walking conversation with Sonia Bazar

Sunday October 15 at 2 pm, at Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery

(corner of Berri and Sauvé Est, Montréal H3L 1H6, metro Sauvé)

Back River Cemetery: Erasure, Death, Time and Space

Artist talk with Sonia Bazar

Thursday November 9 at 6 pm at McClure Gallery

Sonia Bazar will present a talk at the McClure Gallery about their multimedia installation BACK RIVER, which will be held at the Museum of Jewish Montreal (5220 St Laurent Blvd. Montreal QC H2T 1S1) from November 24, 2023 to March 3, 2024. Their research explores erasure, time and death within the framework of the Back River Memorial Gardens Cemetery, Montreal’s oldest Jewish cemetery, dating from 1880 and still in use today.

Sonia will also lead a Jane’s Walk* through the Back River cemetery, during which she will contextualize the cemetery within Montreal’s historical timeline and discuss the communities represented in this unique and sacred space.

*Jane’s Walk is a movement of free, citizen-led walking conversations inspired by Toronto writer, urbanist and activist Jane Jacobs, who championed a community-based approach to city-building. Jane’s Walks encourage people to share stories, discover unseen aspects of their communities, and use walking as a way to connect with their neighbours.

Sonia Halpern-Bazar (she/they) is a 32-year-old artist, born and based in Montreal. Sonia earned a BFA and MFA in Photography at Concordia University. Through sculpture, fibre arts, photography and poetry, their practice examines the notion of alien landscapes and how the body belongs to space. Their work has most recently been shown as part of a Zine-in [Repair Manuals and Cosmic Sounds: Self-publishing to heal the entire universe] at the Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (MACBA) and they have recently published Pathways in collaboration with the Museum of Jewish Montreal.

The artist thanks the Canada Council for the Arts and Dr. Anna Sheftel, Principal of the School of Community and Public Affairs at Concordia, for their support of this project.

     

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