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Proof is Gallery 44’s annual group exhibition of work by emerging Canadian artists, reflecting a range of current concerns and practices in contemporary photography and lens-based media. Proof is often one of the first exhibitions in a professional context for an emerging artist. Past exhibitions have featured work by Kotama Bouabane, Leila Fatemi, Isabelle Hayeur, Anique Jordan, Laurie Kang, Germaine Koh, Luther Konadu, Meryl McMaster, Karice Mitchell, Elise Rasmussen, Michaëlle Sergile and Althea Thauberger.
For more information, read Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, an exhibition essay by Paula McLean and Sameen Mahboubi and designed by Rowan Lynch.
Atanas Bozdarov is an artist and designer whose work incorporates sculpture, photography, and graphic design to explore systems of access, intersections of disability and design, and architectural propositions for public space. Recent projects include creating a garden and a library at Tangled Art Gallery for the Mayworks Festival, taking part in a quiet parade at The Blackwood Gallery, and collaborating with A.S.M. Kobayashi on Rise Over Run at Nuit Blanche—a project exploring connections between disability and skateboarding communities. He holds an MDes from OCAD University.
Geoffrey Lok-Fay Cheung (he/him) is an artist examining the way bodies hold and transform memories, from its compaction against familial narrative legacies, to its dilation through ritual and ceremony. Cheung’s practice is guided by diverse material and disciplinary traditions, creating works—including print, video and installations—that incorporate photographic images, organic materials and digital processes. His exploration of personal identity and cultural inheritance is informed by his lived experience as a queer second-generation Canadian settler of Chinese descent. His work synthesizes scientific and metaphysical perspectives, informed by his background as a MSc graduate from the University of Toronto. Cheung lives and works on the traditional First Nation territories of Tkaronto (Toronto) and the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations (Vancouver)—where he obtained his MFA from Emily Carr University.
Kosar Movahedi is a mixed-media artist whose work uses humour and play to complicate our perception of space, surface and the indexical notion of photography. She is based on the traditional territories of the lək̓ʷəŋən peoples (Victoria), holds an MFA from the University of Victoria and a BSc in Architecture from University of Tehran.
