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Luis Jacob

Luis Jacob is a Toronto-based artist, writer, curator and educator. His book Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto is forthcoming from the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.
The View from Here

The View from Here

How do the stories we tell ourselves about where we live, and who we are, change over time? Here, artist Luis Jacob shares his research into the overlapping narratives of place for his upcoming project at the inaugural Toronto Biennial

Aesthetic Arousal

Aesthetic Arousal

For our Winter 2019 issue themed on Pleasure, we asked seven artists: which works of art turn you on?

Remove! Replace! Restore!

Remove! Replace! Restore!

I want to think about climate change outside of meteorology, and think of it instead as a form of industrial toxicity

It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900 to 1970

It’s About Time: Dancing Black in Canada 1900 to 1970

Dance Collection Danse Gallery, Toronto, January 31–June 22, 2018

A Play of History

A Play of History

“Historical continuity is the Achilles heel of Toronto artmaking.” I wrote these words eight years ago. Today I wonder: What does this mean?

The Ward, Toronto: A Blank Space

The Ward, Toronto: A Blank Space

Luis Jacob reflects on Toronto’s rich local history, and colonial tensions, through an archival photograph of the Ward neighbourhood.