In this issue

Our Winter 2023 issue considers the complexities of home and placemaking in the face of uncertainty. The issue’s editorial projects offer tools for inquiry, community and familial reconnection, self-expression, and the fight against erasure. While each project is self-contained and reflects the personal ethos of each contributor, there is dialogue that runs across the issue, resulting in themes and practices that reconsider and subvert our ideas of what makes a home.

Editorial Note: The Complexities of Home
By Maxine Proctor

The Conspiracy Theory as Allegory: Reflecting on “The Truck Guys”
By Lauren Fournier

Chinatown Gates: Monument Towards Decolonial Relationalities
By Lee Rayne Lucke

Don’t Forget to Count Your Blessings: Claiming the Hookah Lounge
By Christina Hajjar

artist project: A Typographic Collaboration featuring Julian Yi-Zhong Hou and Shane Krepakevich
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Thinking Through Clay: Considering the Work of Prairie Artists Rebecca La Marre, KC Adams, and Amy Snider
By Margaret Bessai

Liberating Visions: Adad Hannah’s What Fools These Mortals Be
By India Rael Young

Black Joy and the Splendour of Community: A Reflection on “As We Rise: Photography of the Black Atlantic”
By Angela Walcott

Kulshan
By Paul Walde

BlackFlash Magazine Description:

BlackFlash Magazine is a platform for contemporary visual art.

BlackFlash is dedicated to presenting critical opinions, urgent issues, and innovative ideas about divergent artistic practices from across Canada, the United States and beyond. Each issue includes feature articles, profiles, interviews, and artist projects from a diverse selection of artists, writers, and curators. BlackFlash fosters a rich public engagement with image-based practices, such as photography and video as well as sound, performance and social practice by promoting energetic debate and showcasing diverse voices and communities (local, regional, national and international).

BlackFlash was founded in 1983 by the Saskatoon artist-run centre, The Photographer’s Gallery (TPG). We are currently working on our 38th year of publication, making us one of Canada’s longest running magazines. BlackFlash is proudly published, designed, and disseminated in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and is an internationally recognized resource and authority on Canadian and international contemporary art.

BlackFlash was created to promote contemporary photography and over its thirty-five year history, the magazine evolved, following the artistic trajectory of photo-based practice to include artists working with new technologies such as video and digital media. In its commitment to being responsive to artists and relevant to contemporary art practice, the magazine has recently broadened its editorial mandate, while affirming its distinctive prairie perspective.