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Jayce Salloum a history of photography

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Jayce Salloum, sky bright sky night first star I see tonight, celestial views etched into a red car hood, the ability of the abstract to bring one further into the scene, the setting, night sky, sub/urban setting of homes on top of Coast Salish (Musqueam/ Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh) land at or near sən’a?qw/Sen’ákw (Kitsalano reduced from August Jack Xats’alanexw/Khahtsahlano), Vancouver, 7/24/13 [0942]
Jayce Salloum, sky bright sky night first star I see tonight, celestial views etched into a red car hood, the ability of the abstract to bring one further into the scene, the setting, night sky, sub/urban setting of homes on top of Coast Salish (Musqueam/ Squamish/Tsleil-Waututh) land at or near sən’a?qw/Sen’ákw (Kitsalano reduced from August Jack Xats’alanexw/Khahtsahlano), Vancouver, 7/24/13 [0942]
Jayce Salloum, K searching the fields, title tba, Byblos, Lebanon, 11/22/15
Jayce Salloum, K searching the fields, title tba, Byblos, Lebanon, 11/22/15
Jayce Salloum, taking stock, dusted mud path, stores/goods, truck upheaved, moving around, silk road routes, few minutes away from the Driver’s restaurant near Qarghanatu, on the way to Band-e-Amir from Bamiyan, Bamiyan province, Afghanistan, 4/17/08 [DSCF3150]
Jayce Salloum, taking stock, dusted mud path, stores/goods, truck upheaved, moving around, silk road routes, few minutes away from the Driver’s restaurant near Qarghanatu, on the way to Band-e-Amir from Bamiyan, Bamiyan province, Afghanistan, 4/17/08 [DSCF3150]

We are buried in a plethora of images, inundated with a surfeit of surfaces, slices of shadows and the self, reflections bouncing off glass. We carry these images with us, or at least images of the images where the instant has meaning and the moment is lost. Salloum retraces his encounters with photography with work from several decades including photographs by Ansel Adams, Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber, Moyra Davey, Lorraine Gilbert, Barbara Martz, Alison Rossiter, Barbara Spohr, Andy Sylvester and others.

Jayce Salloum has exhibited at the widest range of venues possible, from the smallest storefronts in his neighbourhood to institutions including the Musée du Louvre, Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, National Gallery of Canada, Bienal De La Havana, Sharjah Biennial, and the Biennale of Sydney. Salloum is a recipient of the 2014 Governor General’s Award in Visual and Media Arts and is a finalist for the 2016 Scotiabank Photography Award.

Jayce Salloum – As if an itinerant geographer of conflicted territories, Salloum observes the world and creates images/texts to re-make meaning from. He tries to go only where he is invited or where there is an intrinsic affinity, his projects being rooted in an intimate engagement with place. A grandson of Syrian or Lebanese immigrants he was born and raised on others’ land, the Sylix (Okanagan) territory. After 23 years living and working elsewheres he planted himself on the unceded stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ. Recognizing and acting on this is an everyday practice, but let’s face it, he could do a lot more.

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