In honour of London, Ontario's 2020 Wordsfest, artist Jamelie Hassan is collaborating with Brown & Dickson Bookstore on Richmond St. and has installed in one of their windows her blow-up photo: “Cairo Bookseller”, 1990.
If you look closely you will discover copies of a book in the towering pile of books for sale - which caused great controversy around the globe. Can you read the name of the author and the title of the book?
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Jamelie HassanCanadian visual Artist Archives
January 2021
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Jamelie Hassan is a visual artist and activist based in London, Ontario. Since the 1970's, she has exhibited widely in Canada and internationally. She is also active as a lecturer, writer and independent curator and has travelled and worked globally.
In 2001 she received a Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts in recognition of her artistic achievement. Her activism, curatorial work and contributions to the artist-run centre movement in Canada were also mentioned by the jury in their statement. London, Ontario is on the traditional lands of the Anishinaabeg, Haudenosaunee, Lenape, Attawandaron and Huron-Wendat peoples, at the forks of Deshkan Ziibi (Antler River), an area subject to the Dish with One Spoon Wampum and other treaties. |
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