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SUMMARY:Curtis Talwst Santiago: worlds\, worlds\, worlds
DESCRIPTION:Curtis Talwst Santiago \nworlds\, worlds\, worlds\n\nSeptember 
 17\, 2026—Janurary 3\, 2027\nFlanagan Family Gallery\n\nworlds\, worlds\,
  worlds explores how stories are held and carried across the vestiges of hi
 story and memory. Rooted in a form of world-building where inherited imagin
 ation meets critical fabulation\, the exhibition celebrates polyphonic iden
 tities that negotiate different geographies across time\, weaving the mater
 ial\, the fragmentary\, and the ever-evolving within storytelling.\n\nCentr
 al to the Contemporary Calgary presentation is a focused survey of Santiago
 's dioramas. Begun in 2008 and collectively known as the Infinity Series\, 
 these intimate works move fluidly between personal memories of Caribbean co
 mmunity life—basement dance parties\, the quintessential barbershop\, fig
 ures dreaming in the grass—and broader collective histories such as migra
 tion crises and the rise of territorialism in its many forms. These scenes 
 are portrayed as something precious and deliberately sheltered\, worlds tha
 t can be held in the palm of a hand\, inviting careful observation of detai
 ls often overlooked.\n\nThe dioramas are imagined within a scenography of t
 ransmission comprising horns\, pipes\, channels\, and circuitry. Formed int
 o sinuous volumes\, these structures situate the exhibition across broader 
 infrastructures of digital networks\, material circulation\, and regimes of
  surveillance capitalism\, unfolding as an operative field in which meaning
  is generated\, disrupted\, and redirected. They echo longer histories of m
 ovement\, extraction\, and displacement that continue to underwrite contemp
 orary systems of connection and control. Made from cardboard\, the material
  language extends Santiago's practice of crafting contained worlds from dis
 carded objects: jewellery boxes and found containers used to hold what is d
 eemed precious before themselves being cast aside. That logic of containmen
 t and disposal is reactivated here. Cardboard\, typically used to transport
  and protect objects prior to discard\, becomes both vessel and structure\,
  foregrounding the uneven politics of what is preserved\, circulated\, or r
 endered disposable. This transference of weight reflects the asymmetries of
  systemic power and selective memory\, where what is amplified is not alway
 s what is most necessary to hear or remember.\n\nWith its visible strata an
 d fragile edges\, cardboard retains the imprint of pressure and time\, oper
 ating simultaneously as surface\, structure\, and record. This textural sen
 sibility resonates with Santiago's practice as a musician\, where attention
  to rhythm\, resonance\, and disruption extends into the visual field. Horn
 s and channels recur throughout the exhibition as communicative apparatuses
 \, modulating attention\, interruption\, and response across lived experien
 ce. In this expanded field\, perception is not anchored in the visual alone
 \; it is distributed across minor frequencies\, subtle registers\, and peri
 pheral cues that ask to be heard as much as seen.\n\nThis exhibition is esp
 ecially timely within the North American context\, a land shaped by the enc
 ounters of peoples from the old and new worlds\, where histories\, stories\
 , and identities are constantly intersecting and evolving. The condition of
  partial relay runs throughout\, meaning formed through relation\, interrup
 tion\, and circulation. Rather than emerging as fixed or complete\, stories
  unfold through fragments\, detours\, and acts of exchange\, revealing how 
 worlds are continually assembled through encounters with others.\n\nAt a mo
 ment when cultural gatekeeping\, rigid hierarchies of knowledge\, and fear 
 of difference continue to structure public discourse\, worlds\, worlds\, wo
 rlds affirms curiosity\, exchange\, and the will to community as practices 
 of repair and collective imagining.\n\nCurated by Kanika Anand.\n\nhttps://
 tourism-calgary.kasia.paperleaf.dev/events/curtis-talwst-santiago-worlds-wo
 rlds-worlds\n\nhttps://www.contemporarycalgary.com/whats-on/curtis-talwst-s
 antiago-worlds-worlds-worlds
LOCATION:Contemporary Calgary\, 701 11 Street Southwest\, Calgary\, Ab\, T2
 P 2C4
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