An Exhibition Without a Single Title
We are glad to invite you to our new exhibition.
This time, we turned to vernacular photography — and more specifically, to women within it. The exhibition brings together photographs of women from different collections we work with, creating a space where these images can be seen together, in conversation with one another.
We didn’t settle on a single title for this exhibition — and that is intentional. Depending on how you choose to look at it, this exhibition becomes a slightly different thing each time.
At the core of the project is a simple but important shift: we wanted to create a space where women in these photographs are not only being looked at — but where they, in a way, look back at us. A small reversal of the usual gaze.
From there, the exhibition opens up into multiple possible paths.
You can approach it through a visual anthropology lens and explore how women appear in vernacular photography: what kinds of moments are considered worth photographing, how people pose, what expressions they choose, how clothing and environments shape the image, and what all of this tells us about everyday life.
Or you can take a photography theory route and experiment with applying ideas from authors like Roland Barthes, Susan Sontag, or Agnieszka Pajączkowska. What happens if we read these everyday images through theoretical texts? What do they reveal about photography as a medium, about memory, presence, and absence?
You can also simply move through the exhibition intuitively — noticing details, following faces, recognising gestures, or finding something unexpectedly familiar.
This exhibition does not ask you to follow a single narrative. Instead, it invites you to construct your own.
We hope you spend some time with these images — and allow them to look back.
The exhibition is open until March 23d. It is made with support from Canada Fund for Local Initiatives.