Anique Jordan
Photography MFA
Rhode Island School of Design
Specialisms: Photography / Art Performance / Art Curation
Location: Toronto, Canada
Anique Jordan
First Name: Anique
Last Name: Jordan
Specialisms: Photography / Art Performance / Art Curation
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My Location: Toronto, Canada
University / College: Rhode Island School of Design
Course / Program Title: Photography MFA
About
Anique Jordan is an artist, writer and curator who looks to answer the question of possibility in everything she creates. As an artist, Anique works in photography, sculpture and performance often employing the theory of hauntology to challenge historical or dominant narratives and creating, what she calls, impossible images. Recently, she has been thinking about time, the surreal, and the rejection of the singular and linear ways of thinking or being in the world. Anique has lectured on her artistic and community engaged curatorial practice as a 2017 Canada Seminar speaker at Harvard University and in numerous institutions across the Americas. In 2017 she co-curated the exhibition Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario. As an artist, she has exhibited in galleries such as Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), Art Gallery of Guelph, Doris McCarthy Gallery, German Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, Gallery 44, and Y+ Contemporary. She has received numerous awards, grants and fellowships and in 2017 was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist of the Year award. Anique is currently completing her MFA in Photography at Rhode Island School of Design.
To Score the Marvelous takes its title from the surrealist impulses of Afro-Caribbean thinker Suzanne Césaire, who speaks candidly about maintaining a "permanent readiness for the marvelous." Through several dozen silhouetted gestures, the series stages an unfixed vocabulary that is part code, part alphabet, part music, and part score.
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