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Booooooom 2024 Photo Awards!
Street Photography Category Winner: Vendedora de Globos
For our third annual Booooooom Photo Awards, supported by Format, we selected 5 winners, one for each of the following categories: Portrait, Street, Colour, Nature, Fashion. You can view all the winners and shortlisted photographers here. Now it is our pleasure to introduce the winner of the Street category, Ernesto Cabral de Luna.
Ernesto Cabral de Luna is a Mexican lens-based artist working in Toronto. Drawing from his immigrant experience, his work explores themes of identity and representation, as well as the relationship between memory, dislocation, and displacement... (continue reading)
Fragile Residue - Contact Photography Festival
The Plumb (1655 Dufferin St)
April 17 - June 8
Opening: April 17 (6-9pm)
Fragile Residue presents the work of Ernesto Cabral de Luna, Delali Cofie, and Amara King. Within photographic practices often taking a non-traditional approach, these artists' utilization of various media and visual devices - and their invocation of archives, both literal and figurative - speaks to the instability of memory, the power of disrupting the historical record, and the mercurial nature of the concept of "home." ... (continue reading)
Artist Project 2025
Opening Night: May 8 (6pm - 10pm)
May 8-11, Better Living Centre (195 Princes' Blvd)
Find me at Booth U8 in the Untapped section!
Discover and connect with over 250 independent artists at Artist Project in Toronto from May 8-11, 2025. Experience a stimulating environment designed to ignite enriching conversations and foster a personal connection with art. Explore thousands of artworks, large scale installations, enjoy curator led art tours and take home that special work that truly resonates with you.
Be the first to experience the fair at Opening Night, Thursday, May 8, 6–10 PM. This is your chance to meet the artists, discover and purchase incredible works before the weekend, and let your emotions come alive.
Join DesignTO and Scavolini for a joyous celebration of the kitchen as a place of gathering and cultural hub.
This free event invites you to experience a rich blend of multicultural food, music, and art in Scavolini’s Toronto Showroom. On May 7, savour delicious snacks from Nigeria, Pakistan, and Iraq prepared by Newcomer Kitchen, a non-profit social enterprise creating social and economic opportunity for newcomer women. Also enjoy live music by Mark Marczyk, the Ukrainian-Canadian multi-hyphenate at the helm of the Lemon Bucket Orkestra.
Experience artwork in textiles, photography, ceramics, sculpture, video, and papercutting, by makers of Ukrainian, Mexican, Indian, Syrian, and Nigerian heritage. Artwork will continue to be on display until May 17 during regular showroom hours: Monday to Saturday, 10am to 6pm... (continue reading)
Prolonged: Translating a Distance
Gallery 44 (401 Richmond)
Production Gallery (Lower Floor)
April 4 - July 5
Prolonged: Translating a Distance examines the fluidity of memory through abstraction, exploring and offering an alternate way to consider stories of displacement.... Drawing from his immigrant experience, Ernesto Cabral de Luna explores themes of identity and representation through the fleeting nature of memory that constructs a mobile, personal and ephemeral archive fundamental to diasporic identities... (continue reading)
LENSCRATCH Feature & Interview
by Daniel George
March 29, 2025
Daniel George: What prompted you to create Mining for Some Sort of Continuity? Tell us how it all began.
Ernesto Cabral de Luna: This series originated as my culminating thesis project for my BFA in Photography at OCAD University. The catalyst was my interest in 20th-century Mexican Exvotos—devotional paintings on metal sheets used by an illiterate population to express gratitude for divine intervention. Growing up with Exvotos in my household, I was drawn to the way materiality shaped their narratives: rust bleeding through paint, flaking surfaces revealing metal, and bent corners marking the passage of time. Initially, I experimented with printing family photographs onto corroded metal, fascinated by the rich patinas of oxidized copper. Over time, I expanded my material exploration to include corrugated metal and shards of colored glass—elements inspired by childhood memories of makeshift security barriers in Mexico, where broken glass from bottles was embedded into walls as an ad-hoc form of barbed wire... (continue reading )
NADA Curated: As it Unfolds
Online Exhibition a newartdealers.org
March 14 - April 18, 2025
As It Unfolds explores human transformation as a continuous and evolving process shaped by the interplay of time, memory, and experience. This online exhibition invites artists from all disciplines to contribute works that examine how moments of becoming —whether personal, collective, or imagined—unfold and take shape. Rather than viewing becoming as a fixed state or linear progression, the exhibition highlights its cyclical and iterative nature. Time acts as both subject and medium, revealing the intricate connections between past, present, and future. Artists are encouraged to explore how their work reflects the tension between permanence and impermanence, addressing themes such as layered histories, speculative futures, and recurring patterns of change... (continue reading)
Latest News: CBC Interview for "My Story is You" Photo Project for Soulpepper's run of Kim's Convenience
CBC Toronto Metro Morning Interview
FRICTION
Western University's tba Journal of art, media, & visual culture
The static of friction is palpable; it shocks us daily. Below us, the lithosphere steadily pushes against itself in a process of subduction, and above ground a multiplicity of narratives electrifies the air through various frictions. Classically, friction has been associated with chaos or conflict, as a negative impact of two or more forces making contact with one another. Tba’s mandate since its inception has been to welcome experimentation in the works of emerging scholars and artists, and our past contributors have found space to reimagine what a scholarly journal might look like, creating various frictions as the visual and sensorial qualities of art collide with the boundaries of the academic framework. Our issue this year is no different, featuring artists, writers, and academics reflexively analyzing their work through research-creation, poetry, and material encounters, even pushing back against the structure of the article itself through experimental footnotes and sound. In our 2025 issue, we celebrate creative practices and scholarly writing born from experimentation and risk, reimagining friction as a force that can simultaneously describe conflict, pain, and grief, and also the creative, curious, and joyful...(continue reading)
NEW BLOG POST!
La Sirena, 2024
In this artwork, various archival images are transferred onto a corroded piece of copper, presenting three figures on a beach: a man drinking a beer, another lying on the sand, and a woman walking towards them. Each figure is drawn from separate photographs taken by my mother at different beaches throughout her youth... (click here to read more)
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Latest Project: Mining for Some Sort of Continuity, 2024
