Reclaim / Rebuild / Reimagine
In Reclaim / Rebuild / Reimagine, three artists-in-residence at Trinity Square Video explore how identity, memory, and material intersect to form spaces of renewal. The exhibition brings together the work of Danica ”Dizzy” Ricamara, Lu Lopez, and Rolla Tahir, whose practices span analogue sound, film, photography, denim, and woven textiles. Each artist transforms personal and collective histories into works that consider how culture endures and evolves through acts of creation.
At its core, Reclaim / Rebuild / Reimagine reflects on resilience as a generative process—one that values care, connection, and imagination over endurance alone. The exhibition invites viewers to experience how storytelling and material practice can reclaim the fragments of the past to envision more inclusive futures.
Opening Night: November 6, 2025 (7pm to 9pm) Click for Tickets
On view November 6, 2025 – January 22, 2026, at Trinity Square Video
About the Artists
Dizzy Ricamara: @directordizzydinero
Danica “Dizzy” Ricamara is a multifaceted, award-winning director from Scarborough, ON. With a bold voice and a sharp visual language, Dizzy uses storytelling as a form of advocacy — bringing visibility to untold narratives and exploring the rich nuances of identity and representation.
Lu Lopez: @lulo.pz | lulopez.xyz
A Mexican lens-based artist working in Toronto, Lu uses photography and experimental video to trace the threads of memory, migration, and human connection. Their work invites reflection on what we carry, what we remember, and how we connect across distance and time.
Rolla Tahir | رولا طاهر: @smoking.apples | smokingapples.ca
Rolla is an independent filmmaker and “film weaver,” shaping poetic, layered visual works rooted in her transnational journey through Egypt, Sudan, Kuwait, and now Toronto. Her practice explores displacement, belonging, and the beauty found in in-betweenness.
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This exhibition is part of Trinity Square Video’s 2025 Artists-in-Residence
About the Artists
Danica "Dizzy" Ricamara, Lu Lopez, Rolla Tahir | رولا طاهر
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.
