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A new exhibition at Toronto’s Power Plant gallery focuses on an anti-colonial renaming project

In Sasha Huber’s Tail­or­ing Free­dom, 2021, the artist repro­duced a photo by Louis Agassiz that ori­gin­ally showed Renty, an enslaved per­son, and his daugh­ter, Delia, naked from the waist up as part of his racial inequal­ity argu­ments. Huber used a staple gun to clothe Renty and Delia.
In Sasha Huber’s Tail­or­ing Free­dom, 2021, the artist repro­duced a photo by Louis Agassiz that ori­gin­ally showed Renty, an enslaved per­son, and his daugh­ter, Delia, naked from the waist up as part of his racial inequal­ity argu­ments. Huber used a staple gun to clothe Renty and Delia.
HENRY CHAN JR./POWER PLANT

Toronto’s Power Plant gallery is exhibiting works from three creators that inspire reflection

If a certain university in downtown Toronto wished to rename itself with some panache, it might c...