Faisal Karadsheh

Faisal Karadsheh is SAVAC’s current Artist-in-Residence and Programming Assistant! Faisal will be with us for the next 24 weeks and will be splitting their time between working in the studio and working with our AD as a Programming Assistant. This residency is supported through Young Canada Works at Building Careers in Heritage.

OPEN STUDIO with Faisal Karadsheh

“We are inextricably tethered to the pigeon, both as subject and metaphor. Often dismissed as ordinary, pigeons carry profound narratives—spanning childhood memories, urban folklore, and cross-cultural histories that reveal a complex bond between humans and these winged characters. Ultimately, this exploration seeks to archive reflections on the everyday while inviting us to re-engage with our bodies, and the spaces within and around us.”

Faisal explores the pigeon’s role in urban and cultural narratives through video projections, sound production, and movement experiments. Visitors are invited to contribute to this evolving research project, sparking dialogue on genetics, multispecies relationships, and alternative archival practices.

Location: The Bachir Yerex Presentation Space, 401 Richmond W, 4th Floor

Schedule

• Group Conversation: Thursday, January 30, 6:00pm – 8:00pm
• Open Studio Drop-in Hours:
  • Monday, February 3, 12:00pm – 5:00pm
  • Tuesday, February 4, 3:00pm – 9:00pm

To schedule a one-on-one studio visit, email programming@savac.net.

Faisal Karadsheh (b. 1999, Amman) is a Jordanian-Palestinian artist and arts administrator based in T’karonto/Toronto. His interdisciplinary approach spans painting, sound, video, installation, performance, poetry, extended reality, and community organizing. Through collecting and preserving material traces, his practice examines how the body adapts, reproduces, and constructs itself. Karadsheh’s work perforates the inherent boundaries between the body and its environment, exploring their connection and separation, while embracing their existential paradoxes. Narratives of skin, memory, communication, and identity often emerge. Most recently, he has been exploring experimental methods to capture absences and uncover presence within empty spaces.