A Smile Split by the Stars

Name: A Smile Split by the Stars
Start: 2025-10-08T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-08T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 1400 De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3G1M8

Schedule

Wed Oct 08 2025 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1400 De Maisonneuve Ouest, Montreal, QC, Canada, Quebec H3G1M8 | Montreal, QC

Join us for an afternoon of talks and conversation with Katherine McKittrick and Nasrin Himada, connected to the collaborative exhibition A Smile Split by the Stars: An Experiment by Katherine McKittrick. The exhibition centres nourbeSe philip's moving poem "Meditations on the Declension of Beauty by the Girl with the Flying Cheek-bones," exploring themes of black girlhood, black femininity, and revolutionary aesthetics that challenge colonial narratives and re-code the promises of modernity.
This event will feature McKittrick delivering a lecture that engages with the exhibition's central themes and philip's transformative work. Himada, one of the curatorial contributors, will offer remarks providing more context and insight into the project's development and significance as it relates to their overall curatorial practice.
Following these presentations, McKittrick and Himada will discuss, in a moderated conversation, the intersections of their work with the exhibition's exploration of black feminist thought, poetry and visual art, and the reimagining of aesthetic and political possibilities.