Lawrence Abu Hamdan’s 45th Parallel focuses on the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, a unique municipal site that straddles the jurisdictions of Canada and the United States. Filmed on location, the film is a staged monologue in the world’s only cross-border theatre that continually reimagines the border as powerful yet frivolous, absurd yet deadly.
Alongside the two solo exhibitions, Hephzibah Israel presents a newly commissioned textual intervention, in collaboration with graphic designer Fraser Muggeridge studio, poetically exploring the nature of translation and what it is to navigate borders.
Commissioned by Spike Island, Bristol; the Toronto Biennial; Mercer Union, Toronto; and the Western Front, Vancouver. Produced by LONO Studio and supported by Arts Council England and JustFilms/ Ford Foundation. Supported at Talbot Rice Gallery by Creative Scotland and Edinburgh College of Art.
