In this talk, artist Jayce Salloum will reflect on over three decades of work in the visual arts, offering an overview of his practice and professional trajectory. He will share highlights and excerpts from his key works spanning films, video works, photographs, exhibitions, and archival research.

The talk will explore the layered relationship between artistic practice and the broader social and political conditions in which it is embedded, considering the role of the artist in interrogating established meanings and reconfiguring them.

The talk is in English.

Jayce Salloum: As if an itinerant geographer of conflicted territories, Salloum observes the world and creates images/texts to re-make meaning from. 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 21 years living and working elsewheres he planted himself on the unceded stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷey̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh and səíl̓wətaʔł (aka Vancouver). Recognizing and acting on this is an everyday practice.