Megan Kammerer
Curator / Writer /Researcher


Exhibitions
  1. To our reunited future
  2. Memories of the Mountain
  3. Shadow Games
  4. Spoiled Milk
  5. Every Beloved Object
  6. Prelude / Requiem
  7. Anoxic Memory
  8. Sutures
  9. Yesterday is Melting


Writing


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Megan Kammerer (she/her) is a curator and writer based in Toronto, Canada. She has held various positions with the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington, The Bentway, Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Blackwood Gallery, and the Art Gallery of Guelph where she worked to support critically engaged exhibition programmes across Southern Ontario.



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1. To our reunited future




To our reunited future
Visual Arts Centre of Clarington
February 8 - May 4, 2025

Curated by: Megan Kammerer
Artist: Rihab Essayh
Installation: David Wigley and Erin Voisey
Photo Documentation: LF Documentation

Production Assistance: Coleen Alcorn, Aziza Nassih, Michèle Parent, Mahalia Thompson-Onichino, Muriel Ahmarani Jaouich, Manel Benchabane, Chantal Khoury, Lynn Kodeih, Sarah Nesbit


 “ I hold the memory of joy in my bones and hold on to the sun just beyond. As we feel a force swaying us to fear, we fiercely renew our vows. Separated and fractured, we may no longer touch, but our psychic resilience propels us to form a new alliance.”

- Excerpt from Rihab Essayh and Mojeanne Behnzadi, Hymm for the Warriors of Love, 2022

To our reunited future showcases a collection of multimedia installations produced by the Moroccan-Canadian artist Rihab Essayh. Her multidisciplinary practice largely proposes new soft futures—creating immersive worlds for SWANA (Southwest Asian and North African) women, and their loved ones, where they are safe and celebrated. The viewer enters into a series of Berber-inspired dwellings. They are imagined shelters and ritual spaces steeped in the community’s traditions, voices and histories. The soft textiles offer comfort and protection. Its figures, adorned in Moroccan regalia, offer community. They encourage viewers to come together. To rest. To reflect. To share space. To disagree, and maybe even gossip. That’s what our personal spaces and homes are made for.

Lora Matis first coined the term radical softness, which Essayh builds upon in her work. The artist’s approach is informed by the theoretical foundations of radical softness and Afrofuturism, fusing ideas from both to define her signature ethos of soft futurism. This sensibility uncompromisingly imagines new and equitable futures, identifying vulnerability and interdependence as essential pillars of collective liberation and well-being in a society that often prioritizes abundance, speed, imperialism, capital, and indifference. You are welcomed into this beautiful world, constructed for (re)union and joy.

Essayh’s work is cast from the sun. It is vibrant and bright. It is the warmth of the dunes under your feet. It is the palette found in a limitless sky, the colour of dawn as a new day rises on our reunited future.

To our reunited future is organized by the Visual Arts Centre of Clarington with the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario and Ada X.