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Mobilité durable ︎ Toronto biennale ︎ Nothing New Year ︎ Brique par brique ︎ Cultivons la resistance ︎ Re-ken-si-le-a-shen ︎ Trans-formation ︎ Bald ︎ Fous de l’Île ︎ Level Seven ︎ Fault lines ︎ Illustration and more︎
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CHALLENGE: The catalog for the Toronto Biennial of Art’s 2024 edition, Precarious Joys, a city-wide exhibition exploring artists’ responses to the impact of colonialism on everyday life.
The publication brings together perspectives addressing environmental degradation, self-representation and belonging, queer futurity, and migrant diasporas, alongside conversations between artists, curators, activists, educators, and cultural organizers. The challenge was to develop a visual language that could hold these varied voices while reflecting the exhibition’s focus on dialogue and the precarious realities it explores.
The publication brings together perspectives addressing environmental degradation, self-representation and belonging, queer futurity, and migrant diasporas, alongside conversations between artists, curators, activists, educators, and cultural organizers. The challenge was to develop a visual language that could hold these varied voices while reflecting the exhibition’s focus on dialogue and the precarious realities it explores.
SOLUTION: The design translated the Biennial’s emphasis on conversation into a visual back-and-forth between columns of text, turning the act of reading into an exchange between voices. The visual tension of the typography reflects the precariousness of everyday life for marginalized voices within a colonial society—its fluctuations, instability, and moments of pressure and relief.
Client: Toronto Biennale of Art
Studio: Otami–
Art direction and design: Rachael Seatvet
Editors: Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López
Publisher: Art Metropole and Goose Lane
INDEX — INFO
Mobilité durable ︎ Toronto biennale ︎ Nothing New Year ︎ Brique par brique ︎ Cultivons la resistance ︎ Re-ken-si-le-a-shen ︎ Trans-formation ︎ Bald ︎ Fous de l’Île ︎ Level Seven ︎ Fault lines ︎ Illustration and more︎
CHALLENGE: The catalog for the Toronto Biennial of Art’s 2024 edition, Precarious Joys, a city-wide exhibition exploring artists’ responses to the impact of colonialism on everyday life.
The publication brings together perspectives addressing environmental degradation, self-representation and belonging, queer futurity, and migrant diasporas, alongside conversations between artists, curators, activists, educators, and cultural organizers. The challenge was to develop a visual language that could hold these varied voices while reflecting the exhibition’s focus on dialogue and the precarious realities it explores.
The publication brings together perspectives addressing environmental degradation, self-representation and belonging, queer futurity, and migrant diasporas, alongside conversations between artists, curators, activists, educators, and cultural organizers. The challenge was to develop a visual language that could hold these varied voices while reflecting the exhibition’s focus on dialogue and the precarious realities it explores.
SOLUTION: The design translated the Biennial’s emphasis on conversation into a visual back-and-forth between columns of text, turning the act of reading into an exchange between voices. The visual tension of the typography reflects the precariousness of everyday life for marginalized voices within a colonial society—its fluctuations, instability, and moments of pressure and relief.
Client: Toronto Biennale of Art
Studio: Otami–
Art direction and design: Rachael Seatvet
Editors: Dominique Fontaine and Miguel A. López
Publisher: Art Metropole and Goose Lane
