Nothing Remains Unchanged

Sat Apr 25 2026 at 06:30 pm to 10:30 pm UTC-04:00

It's Ok* Studios | Toronto

Dar Bayn
Publisher/HostDar Bayn
Nothing Remains Unchanged
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What is carried is altered through time, use, and transmission.
Afghan artists working across image, object, text, material, and film.
About this Event

Mirās is often understood as inheritance, something passed down, preserved, and received. This exhibition begins elsewhere. What is carried is not kept intact. It is handled, repeated, translated, and in that process, altered.

Across image, object, material, text, and film, the works in this exhibition move through states of transmission. Materials shift in meaning. Forms detach from origin. What appears continuous reveals interruption, adaptation, and reconfiguration.

Rather than treating inheritance as fixed, Mirās is approached here as a condition of movement. What is received is already in motion, shaped by time, distance, and use. What remains is not a trace of what was, but something re-formed through passage.

This exhibition does not ask what is preserved, but how it changes, and what it becomes in the process of being carried forward.

Exhibition Opening
April 25, 2026
6:30 PM

Location
itsOK Studios
468 Queen St W, Toronto, ON M5V 2B2
Capacity is limited.


Additional Information

Please arrive on time for opening night programming.
Further details will be shared with ticket holders.


Agenda

🕑: 04:30 PM - 06:00 PM
Workshop with Dr. Ahmad Rashid Salim
Host: Dr. Ahmad Rashid Salim

Info: This workshop takes place prior to the gallery opening and is limited in capacity.


🕑: 06:30 PM
Gallery Opening
🕑: 07:30 PM
Panel: After Inheritance
Host: Dr. Ahmad Rashid Salim

Info: If inheritance is no longer a fixed transmission, what replaces it?
Working across film, literature, and research, this panel considers how Afghan cultural production is shaped in the aftermath of rupture. In the absence of stable archives or institutional continuity, artists often become both inheritors and authors of what is remembered.
At the centre of this conversation is a critical question: who gets to tell our stories, and under what conditions? As narratives move across geographies, languages, and audiences, the act of telling becomes inseparable from questions of power, access, and responsibility.
This panel brings together distinct practices to reflect on authorship, reconstruction, and the shifting nature of cultural memory in diaspora.


🕑: 08:30 AM
Exhibition Viewing Continues
🕑: 09:45 PM - 10:30 PM
Performance
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays

It's Ok* Studios, 468 Queen Street West, Toronto, Canada

Tickets

CAD 22.63 to CAD 38.61

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