Ingrid Jones en conversation avec Gabrielle Moser
March 10 | 15:00 - 16:30
Clusters: Milieux
In the context of her exhibition at the Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery on view until April, 25, Milieux is hosting a conversation between curator and creative director Ingrid Jones and Associate Professor Gabrielle Moser, in collaboration with the Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art.
In this lecture, Ingrid Jones reflects on the conceptualization of the exhibition “Labour” and the challenge of rendering visible that which is routinely unseen. Drawing on both professional and lived experience, she considers the necessity of naming our labour; the cumulative toll of microaggressions and their embodied consequences; the persistent misreadings of Black rage; and the increasingly politicized terrain of rest as practice. In doing so, Jones situates her curatorial approach alongside that of Tina Campt, advancing discomfort not as a byproduct but as a deliberate and necessary condition of her praxis. Jones’s presentation will be followed by a discussion, moderated by Gabby Moser, Research Chair and Director of the Jarislowsky Institute.
This event will be followed by a reception at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery to celebrate the opening of her curated exhibition “Labour” and the launch of its accompanying publication.
ABOUT INGRID JONES:
Toronto-based curator and creative director, Ingrid Jones examines the intersections of decolonial curatorial practice, transnational solidarities, and the politics of museum representation. Her research engages themes of marginalization and refusal through installation, media, and collaborative projects. Recent initiatives address liberatory practices of the African diaspora (“Liberation in Four Movements,” 2024), the unseen labour of BIPOC artists and cultural workers (“Labour,” 2024-25), and nostalgia for racialized communities framed through white supremacy (“Nostalgia Interrupted,” 2022).
March 10, 2026
3 -4:30 PM
Resource Room EV 11.705