Curatorial Statement 

In a multicultural society such as Canada, many people live in-between cultures and inevitably participate in cultural translation. For cultural theorist Homi K. Bhabha, cultural translation destabilizes the notion of an originary culture and opens up a space of negotiation called the “third space.” This curatorial project asks artists to reflect on how they define culture and what it means to live in the third space and negotiate cultural variance. If artists are cultural producers, how do they represent culture in their work? What are some of the ways we connect to other cultures and possibly live in liminal or in-between spaces?  Soheila Esfahani