SlideNight is a twice-yearly art salon where artists and community gather for an evening of projected lens-based art. Inspired by the era when the slide projector was a focal point for communal gatherings, SlideNight presents work by emerging, mid-career, and established artists in an informal and engaging setting.

For this edition, titled Black Femme Image-Making and Self-Representation, SlideNight brings together three artists whose practices experiment with and intervene upon representations of the body and in archival and popular-cultural renderings of Blackness. Through relationships with abstraction, place, and land, their works probe the limits of representation and the shifting, nuanced visions of Black womanhood that emerge across continental and Afro-diasporic contexts.

The evening features emerging multidisciplinary artist Ogheneofegor Obuwoma and mid-career artists Karice Mitchell and Rebecca Bair, whose practices are gaining increasing recognition nationally and internationally. This edition is curated by Olumoroti (Moroti) Soji-George, Director/Curator of Gallery Gachet, and Roger Larry, SlideNight founder.

Doors at 6:30pm

Event at 7:00pm

Your RSVP will guarantee you a seat at the event.

About the Artists

Karice Mitchell is a Canadian artist whose photographic practice examines the history of representations of Black women and the ways Black femme bodies have been shaped by the white and male gaze, popular culture, advertising, and commercial photography. Working with found photographs and archival material, including Black erotic publications, she fragments, enlarges, crops, and reassembles images to explore visibility, desire, and self-definition. Her work transforms images made for consumption into ambiguous, often abstract encounters that resist complete access. Recent projects include Will to adorn (2024), presented through Capture Photography Festival, and economy of pleasure (2025) at Silke Lindner in New York. Mitchell is an Assistant Professor at UBC, and her work is held in the collection of the National Gallery of Canada.

Rebecca Bair is a Toronto-born lens-based artist whose practice moves between photography, drawing, and installation. Her work explores the politics of representation—what is seen, what remains hidden, and who determines what becomes visible. Working with fragments, silhouettes, traces, and abstractions, Bair often uses the body and hair as sites for examining identity, memory, history, care, and resistance. Her experimental photographic process incorporates sunlight, shea butter, drawing, fabric, and architectural space, expanding photography beyond image-making into a material and physical experience. A Black woman living on Turtle Island, Bair’s practice engages questions of intersectionality, archives, and the politics of looking. She is an Assistant Professor at Emily Carr University and co-founder of The Black Arts Centre in Surrey. Her work has been exhibited widely in Canada and internationally.

Ogheneofegor (Fegor) Obuwoma is a Nigerian-born, Vancouver-based artist, filmmaker, writer, curator, and arts worker. Their multidisciplinary practice explores memory, migration, spirituality, identity, and belonging through moving image, photography, and writing. Drawing on diasporic experience, Obuwoma’s work considers relationships between body, place, history, community, longing, and the possibilities of imagining otherwise.

About The Curators

Olumoroti (Moroti) Soji-George is a curator, writer, and educator based in Vancouver, BC. They are the Director/Curator of Gallery Gachet and a founding member of the Black Arts Centre. Their practice centers Blackness as a point of departure for examining broader structures of marginalization across visual culture. Working primarily with lens-based practices, they engage photography and image-making as sites where desire, memory, labor, and power converge. At Gallery Gachet, their work advances community-responsive programming that foregrounds lived experience while challenging dominant institutional frameworks. Across exhibitions and public programs, they explore how visual culture can reimagine visibility, embodiment, and collective futures.

Roger Larry  is a filmmaker and artist who had three film installations co-authored with Mark Lewis screen in 2013 at the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) PS1 In Brooklyn. He has a large body of work made over the last twenty years but is only now attempting to exhibit them. He has made four feature films and dozens of hours of TV, Cool Daddy his latest feature doc is now screening on CBC GEM.

About SlideNight

Previously hosted by Gallery 881, SlideNight was created by Julie Lee, John Goldsmith, and Roger Larry. Past presenters include artists Mark Lewis, Elizabeth Zvonar, Michelle Sound, Annie Briard, and Jake Kimble, and curators Helga Pakasar and John O’Brian. SlideNight is produced in collaboration with Gallery 881, who wish to express gratitude to Printmaker Studio and Hammer Realty for their ongoing support.

Banner image: Karice Mitchell, photo by Dennis Ha.