Locating Self-Care in Urban Centres was part of the city of Toronto's ArtworxTO program and was in the Collision Gallery from September 2021 until the end of December 2021.

Self-care is often presented as unnecessary indulgences feeding into the more self-concerned parts of ourselves, seeing self-care as limited only to directly interacting with our desires and not extending into the world outside, or inside, of oneself.

Locating Self Care in Urban Centres continues the conversation started by Black and Indigenous curators and writers on care as methods of resistance and sovereignty. Artists Laura Grier and Susan Blight consider self-care as manifested through body, land, and community, extending into the gallery itself as a place of respite within the downtown core, a space often unwelcoming of Indigenous presence.

In a city that so often removes Indigenous presence, through displacement and urbanization, this exhibition will be charged with locating Indigenous self-care as a means of asserting stewardship and reciprocity for Toronto’s Indigenous population.

Visit https://www.artworxto.ca/hub/pop-up-collision-gallery to learn more about the ArtworxTO Pop Up Hub at the Collision Gallery.

Photos below were taken by Garcia Creative. Find them on Instagram @garciacreative.ca.