Stories We Tell Ourselves

Aseel Alyaqoub, Sameer Farooq & Mirjam Linschooten, Jacqueline Hoang Nguyen, Emii Alrai

Foreman Gallery at Bishop’s University (Sherbrooke, QC, CAN)
October 21 – December 11, 2021
Exhibition Booklet

Mcintosh Gallery (London, ON, CAN)
January 19 - March 18, 2023
Panel Discussion

A group exhibition conceptualized around questioning how the museum’s history as a colonial tool for Western pedagogy influences the narratives we pass as objective truth. To elucidate the unseen politics within the display systems and political agendas of cultural institutions, the four featured artists/artist duos appropriate various museological practices—collection, didactics, video, sculpture, presentation techniques and artifacts—to self-referentially question how such institutions dictate politicized stories. Stories We Tell Ourselves undermines the museum’s colonial past and current pedagogy by probing how these settings shape public opinion and social understanding of different histories and contemporary conditions.