Who Sings the Queer Island Body?

Multiple award-winning Montreal-based artist from Mauritius, Kama La Mackerel, presents their debut exhibition, Who Sings the Queer Island Body? at the Visual Art Centre’s McClure Gallery until March 25, 2023.

Combining photography, video, textile installations, multilingual poetry and audio compositions, Who Sings the Queer Island Body? is La Mackerel’s first-ever solo multidisciplinary exhibition. The project showcases the artist’s latest research, developed over the past 5 years, putting forward an expression of island sovereignty framed through decolonial mappings of the queer body. In this new interdisciplinary exhibition, Kama La Mackerel reclaims the sovereignty of islands as a decolonial and spiritual force in relationship to their queer/trans body. Bringing together ancestral, geological and ecological memories.

“This exhibition is a call for reframing our relationality to island territories, to bodies of water, and to the ecologies we are part of. At the core of this work lies the imperative to heal our hearts, to repair our relationship to the island body, to soothe the spirit of the ocean. I am deeply humbled to be able to present this work on the island where I have set my roots. This is my gift, from the island of Mauritius to the island of Montreal.” – Kama La Mackerel

Date and Time

Tuesday, Mar 7 , 12 p.m. to Saturday, Mar 25 , 6 p.m.

Location