In 2016, over 40 artists funded by CUE exhibited and performed their work as part of our Margin of Eras group exhibition.
“In love and uprising, join us to observe this death and rebirth alongside artists who live and work on the margins in Toronto”
Exhibition statement:
We continually fail to represent, support, or even simply acknowledge artists from marginalized communities; but here art is flourishing, alive and well. These visions are sharper than a degree, the sights are clear, talent learned and practiced raw: sweat out in tiny rooms and community housing blocks, profiled by the police for possession of dangerous drawings, proliferated in the grassroots from one to another, deferred by City Council because the motion didn't pass the colours, finding their way in a world that was never theirs to begin with, and relegated to the margins by the ancient gears of total systemic malfunction. These are the highest visions of the lowest wages. From subverting transit maps through a racial lens, to challenging perceptions of gender, to examining cultural associations of the black figure, public piñatas questioning assumptions of Scarborough, and art across multiple disciplines exploring power and politics, environmental destruction, capitalism and cultural trauma, and endless other catastrophe. The entirety from the perspective of the margins. You can push us out, but it is on the outside where we have the clearest view of the madness in the middle.
