"Billed as 'the largest photography event in the world,' this year’s CONTACT, beginning May 1 [in Toronto], will involve some 1,500 artists, curators, critics and collectors and more than 200 venues, including such major institutions as the Royal Ontario Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art and the Art Gallery of Ontario.
"As ever, it seems there will be more to see than humanly possible: Thirteen primary exhibitions, nine public installations (on billboards, walls and in airports and subway stops), 35 featured exhibitions and more than 120 open exhibitions in sites scattered across Greater Toronto.
"Of course, there’s a theme to it all, namely identity or, as CONTACT artistic director Bonnie Rubenstein puts it, 'highlighting the relationship between identity and photography by focusing on images that explore individual and collective attributes.… Through a variety of practices, the artist and their photographs assert their own idiosyncratic identity and elicit an emotional association that is both outwardly influential and internally processed by viewers.'"
See it in Canada's Globe & Mail here:
