Naveed L. Salek Nejad

naveed L. salek nejad is an artist-writer and cultural mediator. They holds an MA from Concordia University’s Individualized Program, having explored how a feminist ethics of care can act as a decolonial gesture in exhibition making. Their non-fiction writing and poetry has appeared in books published in Germany (Querverlag) and the United States (Thick Press), and in self-published artist’s books and zines. Born to a Polish mother and Irani father in Germany, they reside in Tiohtiá:ke/Montréal. 

“I want to address the marginalization of queer narratives within Canadian art history and contribute to the development of a queer counter-canon. A recurring interest of mine has been how trans and gender-non-conforming artists embody their gender identities. Considering the symbiotic emergence of video art and performance, I explore “performing for the camera” as a hybrid medium that offers subversive strategies for realizing one’s gender identity “beyond the binary.” My goal is to further the representation of LGBT+ narratives in Canadian contemporary art at the intersection of performance, video art, and gender identity.”