Berirouche Feddal · Amanda Préval · Tyra Maria Trono

Déborder le fleuve, nouer la mémoire

Description of the exhibition

Forming a path along the river, Déborder le fleuve, nouer la mémoire features works by the installation artists Berirouche Feddal, Tyra Maria Trono, and Amanda Préval, who explore the intersection between materials and personal, diasporic narratives. Feddal, Trono, and Préval ground their work in the stories of their elders, ancestral knowledge, and skills that have been passed down to them as they explore different kinds of heritage and kinship.

Here, the artists recount part of their journey—not of migration, but of asserting cultural identities that are all the richer for their complexity. Devised as meeting places, the installations open a discussion on what can create a sense of belonging, what can shape memories, and what systems might constrain this. Looking out onto the water and toward the future, the path symbolizes the bridges, movements, and helping hands that connect society. These three stations are, simultaneously, spaces for dialogue and acts of resistance.

Artists' biographies

Berirouche Feddal

Berirouche Feddal, a transdisciplinary artist who is currently enrolled in the graduate fine arts program at Goldsmiths, explores printmaking, installation, and colour as areas of stratification. His works are conceived as architectures of reminiscences, establishing spaces where perception teeters between buried traces and yet-to-be-deciphered horizons. Feddal is represented by McBride Contemporain.

Amanda Préval

Amanda Préval is a Caribbean-Canadian multidisciplinary artist based in Longueuil, on the unceded territory of the Karonhiatsi'kowáhne. They create wearable pieces and abstract objects by weaving and sewing synthetic braiding hair. Through the intricate manipulation of these hair extensions they question the industrial automation of hair braiding while celebrating its ancestral practice.

Tyra Maria Trono

Tyra Maria Trono is a Filipina artist based in Tiohtià:ke/Montréal and Manila. In her work, she explores embodied experiences and narratives, often linking them to culturally significant artefacts in specific geographic contexts. She delves into questions surrounding perception formation during the cultural identification process and how belonging to a diasporic community alters this trajectory. She utilizes archival research and oral histories to highlight the enduring impact of storytelling.