Critical Writing Index

Aldin's Gift

by Loretta Yarlow and Nataley Nagy

Toronto: Art Gallery of York University, 1996

ISBN 0-921972-17-2

"Jamelie Hassan: Aldin's Gifts marks the first collaboration between the Art Gallery of York University and the Art Gallery of Windsor. Jamelie is an important Southwestern Ontario artist and cultural activist. Whose international career spans two decades. The exhibition features Hassan’s most recent work, encompassing cross-cultural, transhistorical references, which is especially relevant to our culturally diverse region and makes a significant contribution to Canadian art." (Quote taken from page 8 of catalogue.)

Catalogue also includes a selection of a transcribed discussion held at the AGO in April 1995 "between Hassan, Bhabha and Gagnon [which] revolves around questions concerning interdisciplinarity, post-colonialism, multiculturalism, and identity politics. Together they critique modernist forms of cultural discrimination and racism by referring to the analysis of cultural institutions articulated in Frantz Fanon's ‘Black Skin, White Masks’. They also discuss the idea of the gallery as site of production and "location of culture", focusing on the Whitney Museum's ‘Black Male’" exhibition." (Quote taken from the artexte website.)

ITEM 1996.098 – available for viewing in the Research Centre

Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited

Jamelie Hassan