Kotama Bouabane
Visiting Artist Residency
2019-20
Visiting Artist Residency
Kotama states the following about his practice:
The research that drives my artistic endeavours explores the relationship between image and object through an experimental ethnographic approach. The history and conventions of the photographic medium itself contributes to how I am able to study, subvert and challenge issues of representation, identity and place.
These ideas are not fixed, frozen in time but instead constantly moving and in flux. Within my practice, I exploit the tension between the real and the imagined, truth versus fiction and the illusion of space in and outside of the photographic frame.
Kotama Bouabane is a Laotian-born artist and educator. He is a sessional instructor in Photography at OCAD University and holds an MFA in Studio Arts in Photography from Concordia University.
He has shown extensively throughout Canada in notable galleries including Centre A, Vu Photo, Contemporary Calgary, Parisian Laundry and Gallery TPW.
His work has been published in Prefix Photo, Art Papers, Ciel Variable and most recently contributed to The Making of An Archive, initiated by artist Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn. Bouabane has received funding through the Toronto Arts Council, Ontario Arts Council and Canada Council for the Art. He is currently the Co-President of the Board of Directors at Gallery 44 Centre For Contemporary Photography.