Babel on Rosetta Stone

Nahed Mansour, Archiving Voice

November 14 – 25, 2012
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 15,  7 – 10 p.m.
GALLERY 1313 Main Gallery
1313 Queen St. W.
Toronto, ON, M6K 1L8
T: 416.536.6778
E: director@g1313.org
www.g1313.org
Hours: Wed – Sun 1 – 6 p.m.

Curated by Farah Yusuf

Babel on Rosetta Stone is an exhibition about translation and technological mediation.

Featured artists:

Rob Bairos
Michelle Gay
Simon Glass
Nahed Mansour
Sam Pelletier
Norman White
Alize Zorlutuna.

The multidisciplinary show explores the borderlands between media where translation is used as a vehicle to expose the constructedness and incommensurability of meaningacross systems of codes, whether literal, symbolic, performative, cultural, or executable.

Artists Talk, Wednesday, November 21, 7 – 9 p.m:  The Poetics of Mistranslation –  Jessica Wyman in conversation with Simon Glass, Norman White and Farah Yusuf.

This exhibition is supported by the Toronto Arts Council.

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