scores for failed structures of the private

Eve Tagny, scores for failed structures of the private, 2024. Video. Video stills courtesy of the artist.

Thursday, February 15, 2024–
Saturday, May 11, 2024
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Curated by Jaclyn Quaresma
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Work by Eve Tagny
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Ace Hotel, Toronto
Images Festival, Toronto
In partnership with Gallery 44, Toronto and Open Studio, Toronto
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This exhibition was presented as part of a yearlong partnership between Ace Hotel and Images Festival. Four artists have been invited to participate in quarterly, month-long residencies at the hotel followed by an exhibition of their work. The residency takes place under the theme of (g)host, extending the 2023 festival’s central inquiry and foregrounding moving images to contend with ideas at the intersection of archives, spirit, care, and hospitality.

scores for failed structures of the private, a new, multi-disciplinary body of work created while in residence at Ace Hotel Toronto, explores how concepts of private ownership and privacy are foundational to Western racialized notions of the civilized, modern human being. Through gestures and embodied expressions, Eve calls this underpinning into question: how do these fraught foundations predetermine our relationships to nature, labor, sustenance and intimacy in urbanized spaces?

Eve Tagny is a Tiohti:àke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory inscribed with the dynamics of power, colonial histories, and their legacies.

Credits

Direction: Eve Tagny
Choreography and performance: Nyda Kwasowsky
Screenprinting: Pudy Tong
Framing: The Gilder
Photo printing: Gallery 44

Eve Tagny, scores for failed structures of the private, 2024 (detail). Photo: Laura Finley

The artist would like to acknowledge and thank: Images Festival (Jaclyn, Camille, Magdalyn, Kai), Nyda Kwasowsky, Michael Nyarkoh, Open Studios (Rebecca, Pudy, Rachael), Gallery 44 (Alana, Daniel, Miora, Heather, Leila), Ace Hotel Toronto, Cooper Cole gallery, The Gilder, Royal Del Sol, Noor, Nour, Brian, Jocelyn, Simon, Liz, Zinnia, Cleo, Sarah, C41, Graination.

About the Artist

Eve Tagny is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory — inscribed in dynamics of power, colonial histories and their legacies. Weaving lens-based mediums, installation, text and performance, she explores spiritual and embodied expressions of grief and resiliency, in correlation with nature’s rhythms, cycles and materiality. Tagny has a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a Certificate in Journalism from University of Montreal. Recent exhibitions include Musée de Joliette, Momenta Biennale, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Centre Clark, Montreal; Cooper Cole, Gallery 44, and Franz Kaka, Toronto. She is the recipient of the Mfon grant (2018), the Plein Sud Bursary (2020) and has been shortlisted for the CAP Prize (2018), the Burtynsky Photobook Grant (2018) and the OAAG Award (2020).