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Social Setting/Sitting

Digital Photomontage / Audio Recordings Toronto, Canada

Conceived while working alongside colleagues from Portugal, Vietnam, and the Caribbean in a Toronto factory, 'Social Setting / Sitting' emerged from daily conversations around the lunchroom table. Reinterpreting 16th-century still life painting through an ethnographic lens, the installation pairs large-format photographs of dinner tables with audio interviews, investigating domestic labor, gender 

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Empty cafeteria with tables and chairs.
A questionnaire about family meal routines and food preparation.
Man observing a photo of a dinner table with headphones and clipboard.
Exhibition brochure for "Everyday Living & Other Helpful Hints" by Ryan McLay, Margaret Pryde, and Ryan Lepsasicke.
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Audio Installation Ethnographic Interviews

Timestamps / Chapters

  • 00:00 — Installation View & Overview Classical still life and its contemporary reinterpretation.
  • 00:05—Track 1: McLean Family (Jamaica) Jamaican-Canadian traditions featuring ethnographic audio insights.
  • 04:21 — Track 2: Sufyani Family (Bangladesh) Domestic roles and table setting as social architecture.
  • 09:07 — Track 3: D'Souza Family (India) Mangalorean culinary heritage and spices.
  • 13:01 — Track 4: Law Family (Vietnam/China) Vietnamese and Cambodian diaspora, labour, and adap

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