Jayce Salloum

b. 1958 Kelowna, BC
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Salloum’s practise exists within and between the personal, quotidian, local, and the trans-national. While he has lived in many locales Salloum currently resides in Vancouver, Canada. His work engages in an intimate subjectivity and discursive challenge while critically asserting itself in the perception of social manifestations and political realities. He has worked in installation, photography, drawing, performance, text & video since 1978, as well as curating exhibitions, conducting workshops, and coordinating a vast array of cultural projects.

Salloum has exhibited pervasively at the widest range of local and international venues possible, from small unnamed storefronts & community centres in his downtown Eastside Vancouver neighbourhood to institutions such as the Musée du Louvre, Paris; The Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Gallery of Canada; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; CaixaForum, Barcelona; 8th Havana Biennial; 7th Sharjah Biennial; 15th Biennale Of Sydney; Museum Villa Stuck, Munich; Robert Flaherty Film Seminars; European Media Art Festival; Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva and the Rotterdam International Film Festival, or the Salomon R. Guggenheim, New York.

His texts/work has been featured in many publications such as, Third Text, Documents, Framework, Fuse, Felix, Mix, Public, Pubic Culture, Semiotext(e), The Archive (Whitechapel, London/The MIT Press, 2006), Projecting Migration: Transcultural Documentary Practice (Wallflower Press, London, 2007), and Practical Dreamers: Conversations with Movie Artists, (Coach House Press, Toronto, 2008).

The exhibition "Jayce Salloum: History of the Present", examining 25 years of his practice was touring Canada from 2009 to 2012. His collaborative project on Afghanistan "the heart that has no love/pain/generosity is not a heart" was exhibited at the Royal Ontario Museum in 2010 and travelled internationally. Most recently Salloum's work was part of the overview exhibition "Photography in Canada: 1960–2000" curated by Andrea Kunard at the National Gallery of Canada (2017/2018). Beside these nationally and internationally traveling exhibitions, his work is prominently placed in international shows, such as "do it Arab" curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist & Hor Al Qasimi, Bait Al Shamsi at the Sharjah Art Foundation, UAE (2016), or "En mal d’archive" curated by Khaled Barakeh at The Station in Beirut, Lebanon (2018). 


bending water/fuzzy logic | Jayce Salloum and Bernadette Phan
October 4 - October 24, 2020

There is a story or two here. The lore that follows one around. It varies in pace. Has a tactility that suggests the sensorial. The auditory, the tidal amplitude of life rippling in the demarcation of one’s dna. The past is evident but the present more so. What process is so practical as to produce an encounter or an event. This, laborious and ephemeral. Celestial and rooted, ground in dust, the detritus of the everyday rhythm, nonsymmetrical, but synchronous with the unknown, inviting you to stand still, be at ease. These stories collide. A collaboration of particles with divergent speeds and intentions coming to rest for an impromptu moment. Soft eyes. A stretch of time, spill frames into the canyon scaling the gathered. Scattered yet drawn in for visits of the everyday, with the sound of water folding onto itself.
Public Art 2020

Ever close (beyond now)​​​​​​​ | Platforms 2020
October 5 - November 1, 2020

Jayce Salloum’s series of works ever close (beyond now) (2020) are presented on 20 digital screens throughout the city with messages that the artist sporadically wrote through this time of quarantine. He describes these messages as “sutured manifesto disguised as poetic ramblings and rants out into the void.” Trying to present something resonant and useful, his messages tackle our present point of fear, regression, pain, promise and hope, and the unforeseeable future.

Platforms 2020: Public Works is a monthly series of public art projects being presented from June until the year’s end.
Public Works highlights the crucial role of art in our community by sharing the artworks of Vancouver-based artists who continue to work from their living rooms, bedrooms, and on the streets of the city at this critical moment.