TSV Archives (from February 2025)
In a captivating vitrine presentation, African Art from Ghana: A Legacy of Tradition and Spirituality offered an intimate glimpse into Ghana’s rich cultural heritage. Displayed within a minimalist, well-lit vitrine, the exhibition created a striking contrast between the raw textures of the wooden artifacts and the clean, modern space, allowing each piece to command attention.
At the heart of the exhibition was Kwesi Adabie, a craftsman and cultural curator born in Ghana and based in Canada. His woodworks, masks, and carvings are not just decorative but vessels of ancestral knowledge, preserving traditions while engaging a global audience. Through his meticulous craftsmanship, Adabie fosters connections between past and present, tradition and innovation.
African Art from Ghana celebrated the enduring power of Ghanaian artistry, honoring the stories and values that continue to shape its vibrant cultural landscape, while the thoughtful vitrine arrangement highlighted the elegance and spiritual resonance embedded in each piece.
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Kwesi Adabie, an artist and curator born in Ghana and now living in Canada, carries forward a rich legacy through his work. His woodworks, masks, furniture, and symbol carvings are not merely decorative pieces but vessels of cultural heritage. Each piece crafted by Kwesi reflects his dedication to preserving the traditions of his ancestors while introducing the spiritual and cultural depth of Ghanaian art to a global audience.
Founded in 1971, it is one of Canada’s first artist-run centres and its oldest media arts centre. We are a not-for-profit, charitable organization.
For 50 years, Trinity Square has been a champion of media arts practices. Our activities are guided by a goal to increase our members’ and audiences’ understanding and imagination of what media arts practices can be. Trinity Square strives to create supportive environments, encouraging artistic and curatorial experimentation that challenge medium specificity through education, production and presentation supports.
As video-based practices have become increasingly present across disciplines, Trinity Square engages artists and curators in critical investigations into the changing conditions of perception, materiality and the virtual. We consider all of our artistic activities and structures through a process of critical self-reflection, continuously evaluating the ethical positioning of our programming, jury structures, inter-organizational relationships, et cetera. In addition to holding aesthetic worth in its own right, our artistic programming extends our education and production activities in order to generate new knowledges.
Trinity Square’s programming is guided by three priorities: 1) promoting an expanded definition of media arts; 2) promoting the meaningful engagement of diverse voices in all levels of our operations; and 3) supporting and nurturing the production of new works by artists and curators. Our membership represents the diversity of the city and honours the original mandate of the organization—seeking to reduce barriers to access related to race, gender, sexual orientation, and socio- economic and physical ability.
