Sunday School Feels Like Home: billboards

Founded by Josef Adamu in Toronto in 2017, Sunday School is a creative agency bringing together visual artists from across Africa and the diaspora to share compelling stories. This two-part presentation—including an exhibition at the Art Gallery of Ontario and selected billboards in Toronto—celebrates Sunday School’s first major display in the city, foregrounding notions of identity, fashion, and culture at the intersection of art and education.

The six larger-than-life billboards located at the bustling intersections of Lansdowne Avenue at Dundas Street West and at College Street bring Sunday School’s unique and vibrant reflections of Black identities to the city’s west end. Their subtle gestures and mindful depictions underscore photography’s powerful ability to forge connections, relating to African and diasporic communities represented across Toronto and globally. Highlighting selected images from four series—The Hair Appointment (2018), Obaasima (2020), Ten Toes Down (2021), and Jump Ball: Mighty Migration (2020) —this public installation considers contemporary discourses around the notion of home, for home is an inhabited space both tangible and intangible.

Home is a place, our people, our surroundings. Home feels familiar.

Home is the body. Home is self-expression.

Home is not restricted to private spaces. Home is unity.

Most importantly, home is created in each other’s company.

Read more about the exhibition related to this project, presented at the Art Gallery of Ontario.

Curated by Emilie Croning & Sunday School

Presented by CONTACT in partnership with the Art Gallery of Ontario. Supported by PATTISON Outdoor Advertising