Conversation Curatoriale avec Le Comite Camelia / Curatorial Talk: The Camelia Committee (French Language)

April 13, 2025
1:30PM – 2:30PM EDT
Location
Laboratoire d'art Le Labo Inc

401 Richmond St W Studio 277, Toronto, ON M5V 3A8

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COVID-19 Policy

Images Festival is committed to providing an accessible festival and continues to work to reduce barriers to participation at our events. This year, we are implementing a COVID-19 policy to reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission for all, and to prioritize the participation of people who are disability-identified, immunocompromised, or part of an otherwise vulnerable group.

The following guidelines will be in place: Self-Assessment: We ask that staff and participants screen themselves for COVID-19 before visiting the exhibition.

The Camelia Committee, who are among the Images 2025 curatorial residents, will lead an artist talk, in French, about their practice. Nour Ouayda and Mira Adoumier, two of the three members of the collective, will join us to discuss their work and its evolution. Within this conversation, they will share how they came together in the spring of 2020 in Beirut as a way to sustain the circulation of ideas, practices, and desires across their various projects. During this discussion, they will delve into their shared practice, particularly their exploration of fiction in film through the interplay between image, text, voice, and sound and how they seek to uncover the strange within the mundane.

Mira Adoumier is a researcher, filmmaker, and visual artist. Carine Doumit is a film editor and writer. Nour Ouayda is a filmmaker and film programmer. Together, they form The Camelia Committee, exploring the multiple relationships between image, text, voice and sound, through writing, filmmaking, and film programming.

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