Nuit Blanche 2025 – The Meeting Point – Wildseed Centre for Art & Activism

Nuit Blanche 2025 – The Meeting Point Exhibition

Wildseed Centre / Gallery

Oct 4, 2025 — Oct 5, 2025

Mark your calendars (and maps)! Nuit Blanche Toronto returns to Wildseed Centre on Oct 4 from 7PM to 7AM Oct 5.

The free all-night celebration of contemporary art translates Toronto’s public spaces into extraordinary landscapes. Nestled between some of the City’s most captivating presentations, Wildseed Centre’s group exhibition, The Meeting Point, explores complexities of Black diasporic lives.

Date: October 4, 2025 – October 5,2025

Time: 7pm to 7am

Venue: Wildseed Centre For Arts and Activism (24 CECIL ST, TORONTO ON – Ross Street back entry, which is wheelchair accessible)

More Info: toronto.ca/NuitBlanche

Note: In anticipation of this special programme, Wildseed Centre will be closed during its regular hours on Friday 4-8PM and Saturday 11-4PM. Following Nuit Blanche, we will return to standard hours of operation on Tuesday, Oct. 7.

This project was supported by Canada Council for the Arts.

Exhibition Title – “The Meeting Point”

Synopsis

Being Black in Canada is a deeply connected yet fragmented experience — cut from the fabric of one world and sewn into the gaps of another. What began as a forced journey shaped by colonial powers created violent ruptures and overlapping paths, all leading to the meeting point. Black identity on these lands is both fluid and fixed, a non/hierarchical blend of African, Afro-Caribbean, Arab, Indigenous, Latinx and other Black diasporic realities – connected, yet distinct. Concepts like shared consequence, cultural memory and ideological connection expand through dynamic overlap. This exhibition invites a reflective walk backward as a path forward – a form of resistance. It challenges audiences to engage with shifting identities, erased histories and symbolic meaning. For Wildseed Centre, a site of Black resistance and becoming – “Translating the City” embodies the movement of people, culture and AfroDiasporic consciousness. In this way, Toronto becomes not just a place, but the meeting point.

Arinola Olowoporoku, J.S Lean

Curators

Exhibiting Artists

RACQUEL ROWE

Racquel Rowe is an interdisciplinary artist from Barbados, currently based in Southern Ontario. Her work explores how ritual and memory shape Black identities. Through video, performance, and installation, she critically engages with migration and colonial histories, uncovering new ways to reflect on diasporic stories. Her work has been exhibited across Canada, including solo exhibitions The Centre of the World Was the Beach (Forest City Gallery, 2025) and Saltwater Cures All (Tom Thomson Gallery, 2024; Gallery Gachet, 2023). Her practice has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts and the Ontario Arts Council. She holds an MFA from the University of Waterloo and a BA from the University of Guelph.Rowe’s artistic practice is grounded in the intersections of personal and collective histories and how they speak to intimate experiences of diaspora. By exploring Caribbean cultural identity, particularly processes of creolization, hybridity, adaptability, and decolonization, she questions how these elements shape identity and cultural expression. Through performance, video, photography, and installation, she examines themes of food, family, and the body, considering how images can offer new ways to engage with the lived experiences of Caribbean communities and what this exploration can reveal about processes of identity formation and reformation.

EHIKO ODEH

Ehiko Odeh is a multidisciplinary artist from Lagos, Nigeria, her process is rooted in material transformation to evoke a sense of haze, ambiguity, bridging the organic with the archival as a mode of adaptation. Her work engages family history, food security, and coi@ure as reflections of economic change, while investigating globalization, ecology, herbology, and the poetics of space. Ehiko holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and a minor in Creative Writing from OCAD University (2021), Her works have been exhibited at The Toronto Outdoor Art Fair (2025), Design TO Festival (2024), United Contemporary (2025), Meridian Arts centre (2025), The Artist project (2024 & 2025) Abbozzo Gallery (2024), Nicholas Metivier Gallery (2023), BAND Gallery (2019 & 2023). Her work was recently added to the Government of Ontario’s Art Collection (2025).

AYAT SALIH

Ayat Salih is a multidisciplinary artist and researcher whose work spans film, photography, and visual arts. Rooted in her multi-faceted identity as aSudanese woman, her practice explores the intersections of gender, class, culture, and diasporic experience. She views art as both survival and gesture, a way of capturing what is fleeting, obscured. Ayat is drawn to themes of intimacy, grief, social performance, and the mystical. Her work explores the interconnectedness of waking and dreaming worlds and documents overlooked traditions and moments. Her fascination with the human form lends to using the body as the site of gesture and memory. Her art ultimately seeks to uncover hidden processes and open new ways of living and imagining. She holds a BA in Media Production from Toronto Metropolitan University.

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