Carlos Gárate Where We Sing: Documenting a Folk Revival
May 8 – 29
Since 2011, Carlos Gárate has documented Toronto’s Ukrainian art scene through an ongoing focus on the city’s folk art revival and the informal cultural spaces in which it takes place. Emerging alongside Toronto’s world music and folk revival scenes, the exhibition traces the Kosa Arts community (then Kosa Kolektiv) and the networks that form around it. The photographs move across church basements, cultural centres, house parties, neighbourhood bars, businesses, and public parks. Spanning more than fifteen years, the images foreground folk elements, gestures, and materials, presenting moments of gathering, performance, and shared cultural life as they unfold across the city.
The CONTACT Photography Festival is an annual city-wide festival that began in 1997. It encompasses exhibitions, public art installations, and programs that feature the work of local and international lens-based artists every May.
The Festival’s Core Program brings together exhibitions and public programs presented in partnership with museums, galleries, and artist-run centres throughout the GTA and beyond.
The Open Call Exhibitions extend the festival’s community through the inclusion of independently organized modes of publicly presenting lens based work across the city.