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Art NOW series featuring Leila Sujir and Jorge Zavagno
forest!: building a body of work over time, through the pressure of commissions, through testing and previews, along with iterations, until each work takes its shape.
October 3 | Noon | Zoom webinar
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We are excited to be collaborating with the Southern Alberta Art Gallery on this Zoom talk. Leila Sujir’s exhibition, forest documents, is on view at SAAG until October 18.

Over the last forty years, Canadian artist Leila Sujir, born in India, has been building a body of video art works exploring family histories and Canadian histories, using visual and audio collage techniques. Often located within custom-built technologies both for the production as well as its exhibition presentation, the artworks bring together a blend of visual and acoustic elements employing documents from archival sources, fiction and the fantastic. Her video art works have been shown in group shows at the Museum of Modern Art (New York) and the Tate Gallery (Liverpool). Exhibited in galleries all over the world, her work is in collections including National Gallery of Canada and Glenbow. Leila Sujir is a professor emeritus in the Studio Arts Department, Faculty of Fine Arts at Concordia University. She works with an art research studio-lab at Concordia University, Elastic 3D Spaces.

Jorge Zavagno has been working as Technical Director with Leila Sujir over the last 9 years, for the ‘forest!’ body of work (Forest Breath, 2018; Aerial, 2019, and forest documents, 2025); and Peacocks Dream, 2018. He was instrumental in the video production and designing the workings of the installations with Sujir, as well as managing the book project, Chronicles of the Forest, by Elder Bill Jones of the Pacheedaht First Nation.

Image: Leila Sujir, forest documents, a floating 2-sided projection with a reading room (2025). Courtesy of the artist and SAAG. Photo credit: Blaine Campbell.