eunice bélidor: Handle with Care - Curatorial Practices After the Pandemic

Onsite Gallery Curatorial Lecture

eunice bélidor: Handle with Care - Curatorial Practices After the Pandemic

Thursday, February 13, 2025 – 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m

MCA 190 (Auditorium) 100 McCaul Street, OCAD University

Onsite Gallery is thrilled to announce its annual Black History Month guest lecture featuring esteemed curator eunice bélidor. Co-presented with the Centre for the Study of Black Canadian Diaspora and Black Artists’ Networks in Dialogue Gallery (BAND Gallery), this event highlights the vital role of fostering dialogues on Black history, art, and culture within and beyond our communities.

Titled Handle with Care: Curatorial Practices After the Pandemic, the lecture explores critical questions: What does it mean to curate with care in a world facing conflicts, wars, and genocide? Who and what do curatorial practices care for? In conversation with Joséphine Denis, eunice bélidor will share strategies employed by curators, including herself, such as archiving and radical hospitality, to create meaningful and relevant exhibitions that nurture all participants—curators, artists, and audiences alike.

A reception will take place after the lecture.

ASL interpretation will be provided for the lecture.

Onsite Gallery is generously supported by The Delaney Family.

About eunice bélidor

Born in Montreal, eunice bélidor is a curator, writer, and researcher. Her curatorial practice focuses on letter writing as a vector of affective archives for curatorial research. She holds an MA in Art History and a Graduate diploma in Curatorial Studies from York University (Toronto). Her exhibitions and curatorial projects have been presented at MAI, the MMFA, the MAC, Galerie de l'UQAM, and articule. Her writing has been featured in C Magazine, Vie des Arts, the Brooklyn Rail, and Hyperallergic. In 2018 she was awarded the Emerging Curator Award from the Hnatsyshyn Foundation. She is currently an Affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Art History at Concordia University.

About Joséphine Denis

Joséphine Denis, born in Haiti and raised in Port-au-Prince and New York, is a curator and writer. Her work advocates for Black diasporic art and encourages deeper engagement to foster a nuanced understanding of the specific contexts surrounding contemporary practices. Rooted in community dialogue, her work is guided by her kin. Joséphine is the Director of Curatorial Initiatives at BAND Gallery in Tkaronto. Recent exhibitions include BAND at Art Toronto, Where we Dwell: Inside the Founders’ Collections, BAND Gallery, and Amartey Golding: The comfort of embers, The Power Plant Gallery of Contemporary Art. Denis’ writing appears in various publications and she has worked at The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, SBC Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Serpentine Galleries, and Faurschou Foundation.