Jayce Salloum

Jayce Salloum, as if an itinerant geographer of conflicted territories (almost everywhere), observes the world and creates/collects a subjective archive of images to make meaning from. Since arriving here—by no means of his own volition—he tries to go only where he is invited or where there is an intrinsic affinity, his projects being rooted in an intimate engagement with place. A grandson of Syrian or Lebanese immigrants, he was born and raised on others’ land, the Sylix (Okanagan) territory. After twenty-one years living and working elsewhere, he planted himself on the unceded Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh territories. Salloum has lectured and published extensively and exhibited somewhat peripatetically at the widest possible and most improbable range of local and international venues, from the smallest unnamed storefronts in his downtown east-side Vancouver neighbourhood to institutions such as the Musée du Louvre, Museum of Modern Art, Guggenheim Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, National Gallery of Canada, Bienal De La Havana, Sharjah Biennial, Biennale of Sydney, and the Rotterdam International Film Festival. Visit his Vimeo account and Instagram account for more information

Work by Jayce

Artist Statement: beyond now

beyond now is a project for this time, in and out of quarantine time pondering how to tackle the point that we find ourselves in now and in the unforeseeable future and the politics of fear, regression, pain, promise and hope that surround us. I’ve started and stopped several stabs at things, a message comes at an opportune albeit heavily pressurized time requesting a response. I don’t normally produce work upon such short notice, with a short time frame, usually labouring over projects for years, trying to produce something resonant. Nevertheless I am interested in trying to think this period, this time, through into something useful. Your enthusiasm is convincing and breaks my indeterminate ennui. I had started by collecting fragments of text, correspondence with others and writing bits and pieces since I got back here (literally from the jungle) so am making it somewhat of a daily practice. The form becomes a sutured manifesto disguised as poetic ramblings and rants out into the void. Jayce Salloum

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