Tending to what remains (2025)
photo by Henry Chan
Exhibition at Workman Arts, Toronto, Ontario, September 4-October 5, 2025
Curated by Manar Abo Touk
In times of rupture, care often begins with what the body remembers—scent, soil, texture, breath.
Tending to What Remains is a multidisciplinary group exhibition that reimagines the gallery as a living garden: a shared ecosystem of care. Set within Workman Art’s Being Scene 2025, it explores how artists with lived experiences of displacement, intergenerational grief, or mental health struggles turn to organic and everyday materials such as herbs, cotton, hair, wax, paper, and sound, to reflect on trauma, recovery, and community resilience.
Guided by diasporic, feminist, and ecological ways of knowing, Tending to What Remains gathers the work of Xece/Khadija Baker, Anna Williams, Shannon Taylor-Jones, Nadine Hajjaj, and Jawa El Khash. Together, their works create a contemplative space that explores themes of memory activism, collective tending, and the everyday rituals that sustain us.
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hand dyed wool, undyed wool, digital photographs on cotton, cotton thread, wooden dowels
photo by Henry Chan
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