In collaboration with Free Pony Press and Sandra Brewster
Thursday, May 29, 2025 – 5:30 pm @ Artexte
Artexte is pleased to collaborate with Free Pony Press to present the launch of Blur, the latest publication dedicated to the work of Sandra Brewster.
Blur presents a look at Sandra Brewster’s eponymous series, a body of work exploring memory, movement, and diasporic identity. Featuring reproductions of her photo-based gel transfer images, the book documents the development of Brewster’s techniques and themes since the series’ inception in 2016. An essay by Pamela Edmonds examines how this work challenges fixed representations and evokes histories of migration. Blur offers a detailed examination of Brewster’s methods and their engagement with ideas of opacity, resilience, and the complexities of Black identity.
Event schedule:
5:30 pm: doors open
8:00 pm: end of event
About:
Sandra Brewster is a Canadian artist based in Toronto. A child of Guyanese parents, Brewster’s practice reflects a multilayered sense of identity born from the collision of place and time. She completed her BFA at York University and is a graduate of the Masters of Visual Studies program from the University of Toronto. Her work can be found in numerous private and public collections and she has exhibited internationally. Brewster is the recipient of The Gattuso Prize of CONTACT 2017, the Toronto Friends of Visual Arts Artist Prize in 2018, and was a finalist for the 2023 Scotiabank Photography Award. In 2024 she was the recipient of the prestigious Paul de Hueck and Norman Walford Career Achievement Award.
Free Pony Press is an independent publisher founded in 2022 in Amsterdam by Myrabelle Charlebois and Matthias Kreutzer. Now based in Montreal, it develops publications in close collaboration with artists, focusing on contemporary photographic practices. All publications are designed by Our Polite Society and are distributed internationally by Idea Books.