Sep 26 to Dec 20, 2026
I Think This Means I Could Fly
About the Exhibition
In I Think This Means I Could Fly, Anique Jordan considers how truth is made, inherited, and given form. The exhibition grows from Jordan’s research into the Flying Africans—stories of enslaved people who escaped bondage by taking flight—and connections between the Gullah Geechee communities of the Carolinas and her family history in Trinidad. Jordan asks what becomes possible when ancestral narratives, dreams, and spiritual knowledge are approached as truth-telling systems.
Through photography, performance, and installation, Jordan develops a visual language of glitches, shadows, blurs, portals, and disjointed bodies. Monumental photographs, rearrangeable light boxes, and images printed on glass blur the boundaries between reality and the seemingly impossible. Here, flight is at once movement, refusal, and a way of knowing. Jordan invites us into a world governed by other rules, where history may be dreamed and remembered, belief becomes material, and the marvelous offers its own account of what happened.
About the Artists
Anique Jordan is an artist, writer, and curator who looks to answer the question of possibility in everything she creates. As an artist, Jordan works in photography, sculpture, and performance, often employing the theory of hauntology to challenge historical or dominant narratives and creating, what she calls, impossible images. Jordan’s work considers different logics of time, the black surreal and the marvellous as it relates to the black Atlantic experience. Jordan has lectured on her artistic and community-engaged curatorial practice as a 2017 Canada Seminar speaker at Harvard University and in numerous institutions across the Americas. In 2017, she co-curated the exhibition Every. Now. Then: Reframing Nationhood at the Art Gallery of Ontario. As an artist, she has exhibited in galleries such as Art Gallery of Ontario, Art Gallery of York University (AGYU), Art Gallery of Guelph, Doris McCarthy Gallery, Art Gallery of Windsor, Gallery 44, and Y+ Contemporary. She has received numerous awards, grants, and fellowships, and in 2017 was awarded the Toronto Arts Foundation Emerging Artist of the Year award. Jordan has recently completed her MFA in Photography at Rhode Island School of Design.
