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Toronto premiere of an interactive, cinematic installation about transnational Russian migration as told through objects, where the audience determines how the story unfolds.

For the Toronto exhibition, the artist created a series of linoprints retracing his migration journey using imaginary maps.

Join us for the opening party on July 25, 7-10PM in CSV's location at Toronto Media Arts Centre

Gregory Gan's interactive multi-media installation invites visitors to control the flow of a documentary film by interacting with a set of clay objects and a suitcase. As a visitor picks up and places an object inside a suitcase, they trigger a vignette telling the story of that object. The installation is based on multi-sited research on transnational migrants between Moscow, Paris, Berlin and New York.

This exhibition runs from July 25-August 9

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Biography:

Gregory Gan, Ph.D, was born in Moscow in 1984. His family relocated to Toronto, Canada in 1994. Gregory trained as a visual anthropologist, having completed a number of award-winning ethnographic films. Still Life with a Suitcase is based on Gregory’s doctoral research on Russian transnational migration, and is supported by the Public Scholar’s Initiative at The University of British Columbia and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Gregory lives between Toronto and Berlin.