Curatorial Tour: Dwelling Under Distant Suns

Sat Nov 08 2025 at 02:00 pm to 03:00 pm UTC-05:00

Art Museum at the University of Toronto - Justina M. Barnicke Gallery | Toronto

Art Museum at the University of Toronto
Publisher/HostArt Museum at the University of Toronto
Curatorial Tour: Dwelling Under Distant Suns
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A program of the exhibition: Dwelling Under Distant Suns
About this Event

Join student curator Yantong Li for an exploration of the themes and artworks featured in his exhibition Dwelling Under Distant Suns.

Dwelling Under Distant Suns originates from struggles to represent an increasingly precarious environmental landscape of slow violence that occurs out of place and out of sight. In the exhibition, methods of myth-making and speculation underpin the filmic apparatus as channels of inquiry into environmental and geopolitical discourses on heat, water, and agricultural lands entangled with human movements on the ground.

About the Curator

Yantong Li (b.1998, Dali, China) is a cultural organizer, researcher, artist, and curator of ethnic Bai lineage based in Toronto, Canada. He is a Master of Visual Studies (curatorial) candidate at the University of Toronto. Li works at the intersection of global infrastructure, geopolitics, regional folklore and decolonization. His works and curatorial projects have been shown internationally, and include the Curatorial Awards at Jimei x Arles International Photography Festival, Xiamen, China (2022); Singapore International Photography Festival, Singapore (2022); The New Gallery, Canada (2024), Jackman Humanities Institute (2024). Li is also a contributor to CMag and Peripheral Review.

Image: Solveig Qu Suess, Holding Rivers, Becoming Mountains. Video, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

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Art Museum at the University of Toronto - Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Circle, Toronto, Canada

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