Iyanuoluwa (Tim) Meduna

Just Another Nomadic Dream

Just Another Nomadic Dream reflects how the places I move through shape who I am becoming. Each setting, from Lagos to Calgary, New York to Ibadan, carries pieces of identity in motion. The larger figure, drawn from my silhouette, stands both vulnerable and strong, holding the weight of masculinity, faith, and emotion.

Here, I turn to cut-collage to bring different worlds into one frame. Through this form, I merge the skyline of New York, the structures of Lagos, the calm of Calgary, and the character of Montreal into a single story. As an expansion of my work in lyànúolùwa, this piece invites viewers to reflect on their own journeys and the places that shape them.

Connor Cook & YS Chang

Taciturned

Taciturned is about a choice to turn inward attention towards the present moment, to listen to the quiet, dark, grainy and calm moments with as much thirst as those bright, noisy, demanding voices in the room.

The piece was initially recorded with zoom recorders and shot with cell phone cameras. The soundtrack was composed and edited with software such as cecilia, where the frequencies of the ambient recordings were used to transform those of the musical composition, sort of like double-exposed images.

Using contemplation as a method for creative research, such as applying the techniques of soundwalking and deep listening to footage collection, Connor filmed and recorded raw material at the Elbow riverside in summer 2025, when Chang and Connor first met and decided to Collaborate. Both artists were inspired by their creative resonances, sharing similarities in how their artistic practices often build from a perspective of presence, of taking care to watch the present moment.

Months after meeting, in the dead of winter, the two of them are returning to the footage and to the summer to create a new piece for the Microcinema at Werklund Center. The footage is being compiled and edited to feel like one is standing on the edge of the inner workings of the mind of the listener on the edge of the riverside, watching as neurons generate imagined reframings of what they see.

Field recordings are composed and edited to imagine what they might hear.

Maria Fernanda Munar

Shapes of Resilience

As a first-generation Colombian immigrant navigating diaspora, I carry a sense of fragmentation—of belonging and estrangement to multiple places and cultural identities at once. As a woman, my body exists within a space of both vulnerability and resilience, shaped by histories of objectification and reclamation. These tensions—the duality of culture, the fragility of femininity, and the cycles of impermanence and regeneration—are central to my work. Photography is my tool; collage is my method of reconstructing these fractured identities. I turn to the plant world as kin—resilient allies weaving across borders, climates, and cultures. I capture macro imagery of botanical forms and the human body, then reconfigure them through collage and abstraction to create imagined landscapes and ecosystems. In each piece, concept and craft merge to explore stories of growth, adaptation, and interconnection. These artistic transformations invite the viewer to consider how fragmentation might actually lead us closer to wholeness—within ourselves and with each other.