Lebanese artist Rabih Mroué creates performance-based video installations that examine the powerful influence that photographic representations exert on cultural memory, official history and personal recollection. Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to present The Inhabitants of Images, Mroué's first solo exhibition at a public art gallery in Canada. Curated by Scott McLeod, the exhibition features several significant works that are deeply informed by the Lebanese Civil War and its aftermath, including a major new installation, Grandfather, Father and Son (2010), which is being shown in North America for th...

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Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the release of the nineteenth issue of Prefix Photo magazine. On its theme of 'Image Banks,' editor Scott McLeod writes: 'Contemporary visual artists engage with the archive – its organizational structures, its conceptual underpinnings, its order and its disarray – in a myriad of fascinating ways. Beyond the mere act of collecting and assembling, they creatively excavate the archive's mechanisms to reveal its constitutive principles and surprising rewards.' This issue features contributors engaging with a host of contemporary photo, media and installation artists, as f...

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Subscribe at http://www.prefix.ca Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the release of issue 15 of Prefix Photo magazine. Addressing the theme of “spectral light,” editor Scott McLeod has written: “How does one write about the significance of light for photography, when it is not merely significant but integral to photography, as it is to vision and, indeed, to life itself? Bring the subject of light under consideration and, with great speed, it unfolds, spiralling endlessly into ever-expanding fields. The study of light becomes inseparable from that of time, space, history, memory, mourning and dea...

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