September 21 – December 1

Internal Algorithms (Listen to your ancestors, they have all the answers) (2023) is a large textile artwork featuring a rhythmic black-and-white design that encourages viewers to stop and observe the changing patterns. Hidden within the artwork are messages that focus on the concepts of time and history. This piece was conceived during the pandemic, a time when the struggles of Black people were often overlooked and dismissed. The process of weaving this piece became a daily ritual and a positive affirmation for Stina, serving as a reminder of the deep-rooted wisdom and awareness inherent in the Black diaspora.

Data Studies: Caribbean-Canadian Geographies 86/96 (2022) is a textile sculpture in which the artist uses a loom to weave data that we are accustomed to accessing on a computer. In this context, data is translated and woven into color-patterned tales, using the warp to visualize migrational plights. Oscillating between ritual and repetition, notions of truth and myth, Stina investigates both form and materials in this work. The aim is to draw meanings to the relationships that have shaped the identity, movement, and resistance of Black people.

These works embody Stina’s experimentation with archival content, data, text, and folk tales; through their potential to be intertwined, sewn, and re-sewn, they narrate the stories of Black individuals through a mixed-media approach. By blurring the lines between anecdotal and statistical information, realities and myths, they serve as a complex domain of intersecting forms of knowledge.

Co-presented with MOMENTA Biennale de l’image with the support of the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec.

Bio

Stina Baudin (she/her) is a Haitian-Canadian artist and scholar presently based in Montreal and Detroit. She studied at Concordia University and the The Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. Presently, she is a 2025 MFA Candidate at Cranbrook Academy of the Arts.

Stina’s weavings feature mixed media including data, text, archival materials and oral histories to tell stories about Black people’s and their contested histories. Bringing together these narratives through intricate patterns, her work bridges the divisions between traditional narrative and data, truth and myth. In this way, her work seeks to gives expression to the varied bodies of knowledge that emerge through geographical movement, ritual, ancestry and history.

Stina is a 2023/24 recipient of the Gilbert Foundation Scholarship and the Maxwell/ Hanrahan Foundation Materials Award (US) from Cranbrook. Recent awards, fellowships exhibitions and residencies include ZK/U Berlin, Wildseed (CA), the Banff Centre for Art and Creativity (CA), Pocoapoco (MX), and CultureHub (NYC). Her work has been supported by the Canada Council of the Arts, Holon Berlin and (Conseil des Arts du Québec).

  • Accessibility

    The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

    • Accessible entrance
    • Accessible washrooms
    • Elevator
    • AODA-compliant building

    If you require automatic doors to access our exhibition space, please enter through the back entrance of 158 Sterling Road and take the elevators located in the southwest vestibule to the 9th floor.

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  • Getting There

    The Auto BLDG, 9th Floor

    By subway: The Auto BLDG is a 10-minute walk from both Lansdowne Station and Dundas West Station.

    By streetcar: The Auto BLDG is a 5-minute walk from the closest streetcar stop at Dundas St West and Sterling Rd. This can be reached by the 505 Dundas and 506 Carlton streetcars.

    UP Express: The Auto BLDG is a 10-minute walk from Bloor Station, which is two stops on the UP Express from Toronto Pearson Airport and one stop from Union Station.

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