210 Main Street, Joe Batt’s Arm
Newfoundland and Labrador A0G 2X0
Canada
Initiated in 2019, Fogo Island Arts Week is an ideas-focused program of special events and exhibitions involving a diverse group of community members, local organizations, and invited guests. Central to the Arts Week are two days of open studios, with over 15 local artists, designers and makers sharing their recent work alongside galleries, workshops, and shops opening to the public. See program map for details and locations.
The week will mark the opening of Glimpse & Workers, a new solo exhibition by Warsaw based-artist Artur Żmijewski at the Fogo Island Gallery. This exhibition brings together Żmijewski’s Glimpse (2017) with a series of photographs entitled Fogo Island Workers (2019) that the artist produced during a residency on the island three years ago. Both works mediate on themes pertaining to subjecthood and its documentation, but each take vastly separate approaches. Żmijewski filmed Glimpse on a 16 mm analogue camera across Berlin, Calais, Grand Synthe, near Dunkerque, and Paris. The film gathers footage from four refugee camps and takes an unfiltered documentary-style approach.The black and white recordings give the illusion of the past, however the recorded material was made only a few years ago to echo the recent refugee crisis in Europe. In Fogo Island Workers, subjects are unified in their anonymity. Each subject is shown with their backs to the camera as they engage in physical labour. Żmijewski’s work often concerns itself with questions of vision and omission, coalescing distant realities into sticky unison. Together, Glimpse & Workers are emblematic of that entanglement.
Fogo Island Arts will also present The Children of Fogo Island, an exhibition of work by local children and youth artists will be on view at the local annual Partridgeberry Harvest Festival.
In addition to this, two artist-led workshops will be offered by Newfoundland-based artists: Memory Mapping and Place, presented by Marlene Creates and Grenfell Art Gallery’s Print Shop in a Box, presented by artist Alli Johnston.
Hosted by FIA Strategic Director Nicolaus Schafhausen and FIA Director Claire Shea, the Arts Week will feature a selection of speakers including Artistic Director of the Bonavista Biennale Rose Bouthillier; Fogo Island Inn Executive Chef Timothy Charles; woodworker and entrepreneur Kevin Coffin; Producer and Senior Manager, National Outreach, National Gallery of Canada, Josée Drouin-Brisebois; Winds and Waves Artisans Guild members Lillian Dwyer and Millicent Dwyer; Principal at Fogo Island Central Academy Kristen Gill; artist Liam Gillick; artist Erin Hunt; artist and President of the Board of Art Metropole Gareth Long; Associate Professor of Art History at Bingham University Tom McDonough; Independent curator Fadzai Muchemwa; Anthony Engi Meacock, Joe Halligan and Adam Willis of the London-based multidisciplinary architecture collective ASSEMBLE with Joe Kellner; Michael Murphy, Vice President of Fogo Island Workshops and Design Initiatives; and Jelena Pančevac, of Brussels-based architecture firm OFFICE in addition to FIA Program Manager Iris Stunzi and FIA Program Coordinator Micaela Dixon.
Please find the full Program on our website here.
Studio locations are indicated on the Arts Week maps, available at the Welcome Reception. All events are free and everyone is welcome!
The Arts Week is generously supported by: Come Home 2022—Newfoundland & Labrador.
