Abilities Arts Festival A Celebration of Disability Arts and Culture  
Body Language

October 3rd - 17th, 2009

 

BODY LANGUAGE
Urban Space Gallery, 401 Richmond Street West, Toronto

Body Language is an outstanding photography exhibit artfully depicting themes of intimacy, sensuality, sexuality and disability. It is groundbreaking in its frank and realistic exploration of sexuality and people with disabilities, which for far too long has been an unspoken, almost taboo subject. That these photographs vary from playful, romantic, passionate or heart wrenching reflects the diversity of experiences of disability, and within that, the diversity of lives and desires, an acknowledgement that disability is just one part of a life experience.

The opening of this exhibit was at Scotiabank Nuit Blanche on October
3rd. We welcomed over 1000 visitors during the celebrations and the
exhibit remains open to the public until October 17th.

Please click here for a preview of the exhibit.


About Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

At its core, Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is a 12-hour event with a mandate to make contemporary art accessible to large audiences, while inspiring dialogue and engaging the public to examine its significance and impact on public space. Scotiabank Nuit Blanche is both a “high art” event and a free populous event that encourages celebration and community engagement. From sunset to sunrise city spaces and neighbourhoods are transformed into temporary exhibitions. Unusual or forbidden spaces become sites of contemporary art open for all-night discovery and rediscovery. Cultural institutions, from museums to galleries to artist run centres, open their doors and offer free access to contemporary art. The everyday is suspended as the city’s landscape is changed to welcome a variety of artistic experiences.

Toronto’s Scotiabank Nuit Blanche has wholeheartedly embraced these principals, and has become a cultural phenomenon the likes of which the city has never seen.

For more details visit: www.scotiabanknuitblanche.ca/home.shtml

 

Nuit Blanche Exhibit
Photographer: Rudy Ens		   Nuite Blanche Exhibit
Photographer: Rudy Ens
Nuit Blanche Exhibit
Photographer: Rudy Ens		   Nuit Blanche Exhibit
Photographer: Rudy Ens
Nuit Blanche Exhibit
Photographer: Katie Jeffs		   Nuit Blanche Exhibit
Photographer: Katie Jeffs
Roberta Osbourne, Sharon Wolfe, and Pouran Baghai
Photographer: Rudy Ens		    
     

 

Scotiabank Nuit Blanche

 

 

 

Featured Artist:

Ken Smith

My work is influenced by the Japanese aesthetic of wabi-sabi, and tao & zen philosophy. Though I feel there are many complexities inside my imagery, I struggle with the contradiction that comes in paring the work down to the Simple.