Jayce Salloum
Jayce SALLOUM (1958, Canada) is an artist and filmmaker who currently resides in Vancouver, Canada. His work engages in an intimate subjectivity and discursive challenge while critically asserting itself in the perception of social manifestations and political realities. He has worked in installation, photography, drawing, performance, text, and video since 1978, as well as curating exhibitions, conducting workshops, and coordinating a vast array of cultural projects. Salloum has exhibited pervasively at the widest range of local and international venues. A monograph on his work, Jayce Salloum: History of the Present, was published in 2009. He is represented by MKG127, Toronto and Monica Reyes Gallery, Vancouver.
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Filmography
(selection) “..In the absence of heroes..” Part IV: Warfare/A case for context – Introduction (1984, mid-length), Once you’ve shot the gun you can’t stop the bullet (1988), untitled part 1: everything and nothing (2001, mid-length), untitled part 5: all is not lost but some things may have been misplaced along the way (or) of endings and beginnings and some points in-between (2009), untitled part 8: esquina caliente (2016, short), untitled part 9: this time (2020, short)
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Jayce Salloum at IFFR
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Introduction to the End of an Argument
Snippets from Western films, documentaries and news coverage are woven together to expose their racial bias when depicting the Middle East, Arab cu
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Untitled Part 9: This Time
Images of Bamiyan in Afghanistan alternate with children telling crazy stories. A chronicle of displacement.
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Untitled part 3b: (As if) Beauty Never Ends…
An intense video-essay on dystopia in contemporary times.