Alejandro A. Barbosa, They Walked along the Seawall..., 2024, laser engraved inkjet print, 106.68 x 142.24 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.

Artist Talk

Artist Talk | Unsavoury Witness

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Event Dates

Apr 19, 2025

Time

2:00 pm – 3:30 pm

ADMISSION
Free

Please join exhibiting artist Alejandro A. Barbosa and curator Patryk Stasieczek for an Artist Talk discussing his current exhibition Unsavoury Witness at SUM gallery.

Alejandro A. Barbosa (they/he) is a 2SLGBTQIA+ latinx visual artist and curator born in Argentina who lives and works on the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the Coast Salish peoples—the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations. Alejandro’s practice focuses on lens-based media and investigates the flaws of representation, queer lived experience, and the politics of looking. Barbosa holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Art from the University of British Columbia, and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Photography from Concordia University. They work as a Sessional Lecturer at the University of British Columbia and Non-regular Faculty at Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Their work has been exhibited and collected in Canada, Argentina, Peru, and the United States.

Patryk Stasieczek is a Polish Canadian 2SLGBTQIA+ visual artist and curator currently working as an Assistant Professor of Photography at Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Patryk’s practice explores photography as an embodied, interdisciplinary queering of image histories, actions, and materials. Their research is informed by their investment in pedagogy and delves into the emergent conditions of photography and the physical relationships images create as forms of experiential knowledge. Patryk’s work as an artist and curator has been featured in collaboration with the Pensacola Museum of Art (USA), Peripheral Review (CA), Centre Clark (CA), Libby Leshgold Gallery (CA), and the Magenta Foundation (CA).