Melannie Jonas-Ng
Melannie Jonas-Ng est une artiste interdisciplinaire guyano-canadienne établie à Montréal. S’appuyant sur sa formation en cinématographie et en photographie, l’œuvre de Mme Ng explore les complexités de l’identité noire à travers une synthèse de perspectives modernes et traditionnelles. Ses installations, qui évoquent le surréalisme et sondent le fonctionnement de la mémoire et du subconscient, sont imprégnées d’histoires personnelles et culturelles qui explorent les thèmes de l’illusion, de la mémoire et du subconscient.
Jumbies Echo is a guided VR journey through the landscapes of Guyana as told by personal memories and experiences related to native folklore. Inspired by Ng’s reconnection and research into their Guyanese heritage, Jumbies Echo seeks to address the lack of representation of Guyana in contemporary media by highlighting the rich cultural history of the country through a post-colonial lens. The experience is narrated through stories told by Ng’s family, exploring nostalgia surrounding the mythological characters and scenery of Guyana. Tales passed between generations evoke senses of beauty, fear and wonder; Jumbies Echo aims to reclaim a space for art and storytelling, one represented by the people of Guyana.
Marias Marine
Video installation
Location: Saint Laurent. Quartier des Spectacles
In collaboration with Quartier des Spectacles, the Concordia Photography Collective is exhibiting a video piece compiled with 52 brilliant student artists, projected in a large-scale public art installation outside the Saint-Laurent metro station.
The project titled “Marina’s Marine” is a photography and video-based work that displays the lost and accepting feelings of a black young girl in society due to the stigmatization of black women.” Marina’s Marine” incorporates projected and physical fishes as symbolic imagery to demonstrate the parallel of exoticness and containment of how black women have been represented throughout history and media. Used, abused in addition to being misplaced at different locations in the world. This project displays a parallel between the fishes and black girls as they are put into glass bowls to survive. In other words, they are constantly observed and scrutinized. The little girl expresses the same sentiment as the fishes, as they both struggle to live in what is left of their glass homes.
Vivarium – The Hidden Life of Humans
Holographic Video installation
Projection mapping installation in collaboration with Canopy Thloh Concordia Greenhouse public art exhbition. Creation by Joe Carlos Romero and Melannie Jonas-Ng.
Hands for One
Holographic Video installation
