Camille Turner Part of Canada’s Delegation of Curators Attending Venice Biennale

Excerpt from an article by Yaniya Lee in Canadian Art

The continued work of Black women curators in Canada shapes a distinct conversation responsive to settler-colonial histories and the unique experiences of the Black diaspora. Black curators, scholars, critics and artists are getting together more frequently, learning about each other’s practices, and creating projects for the future. Fatona’s 2014 conference at OCAD University, The State of Blackness: From Production to Presentation, was one such major event. In 2015, curators Verna, Edmonds, Fatona and Crooks joined curators Dominique Fontaine, Sally Frater, artist Camille Turner and critic and scholar Rinaldo Walcott to attend the 56th Venice Biennale, curated by Okwui Enwezor, as a Canadian delegation.

Trips such as this, part of the continued organizing of Black women curators, make their work known abroad, while allowing them to continue their important contributions at home. Bélidor puts it best: “I really want to just see Black subjects or subjects of colour being repeatedly in the programming. Not because we have to have one each year, but because they actually do great stuff.”