Curated by Mitra Fakhrashrafi, “shadow work,” the flagship exhibition of the 11th edition of Vector Festival, opens in Toronto. Artists including Imogen Clendinning, Allan Pichardo, and Swarm contribute works probing tensions between rigid classification and lived experience. In Portals, Not Homes (2023, image), for example, Zoe Osborne and the Tamil Archive Project (Krish Dineshkumar, Nithursan Elamuhilan, Vasuki Shanmuganathan) turn childhood memories of shopping for imported goods into an immersive experience.

“IMAGE CAPITAL,” an exhibition organized by Estelle Blaschke and Armin Linke, opens in Essen, Germany. Arguing ‘photography is information technology,’ the show (and companion website) explores six themes: memory, access, protection, mining, imaging, and currency. Tracking the photograph across contexts including scientific imaging and archives (image: Max Planck Institute, 2018), the curators ask “when and under what circumstances did images become operational?”