Jayce Salloum

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.

Jayce Salloum
Jayce Salloum, …failure upon failure, our government (and us) fails again, “Community saves lives, Land Back, Homes4All,” the destruction of the tent camp by the Port Authority and Vancouver police when it had finally found a “perfect” location—if a camp of those unhoused could ever be “perfect”—after being forced out of Oppenheimer Park, subsequently moving to Strathacona Park and then pushed out again to inner Crab Park, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh + səíl̓wətaʔł territories, asphalt tarmac next to Crab Park, aka ‘Vancouver’, 6/16/20 [DSC0306], 2020. From the series location/dis-location(s). Courtesy of the artist, © Jayce Salloum

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