Amanda Boulos
Mother Water

March 17 to April 17, 2021

Galerie Nicolas Robert is pleased to present Mother Water, an exhibition by Amanda Boulos that reflects on three generations of mother-daughter relationships tracing back to the artist’s great-grandmother. These relationships traverse major events and trials including shifting identities, generational eccentricities, and a family history that has survived the Nakba and the Lebanese Civil War. Boulos’s paintings fold these events into tender moments between mothers and daughters, bringing in ties to other family members, multifaceted diasporic identities, and the creative endeavours shared across generations. Through visual metaphor, this body of work leads us to the fundamental questions of our existence within society: Who are we? What roles do we play? What position do we occupy through our roles? 

Amanda Boulos is a visual artist and educator based in Toronto. Engaging with national narratives from Palestine, Lebanon, and Canada, Boulos explores how oral histories undergo constant metamorphoses. Boulos received her MFA from the University of Guelph in 2017 and BFA from York University in 2013. Her work was presented at Richard Rhodes Dupont Projects (Toronto, ON), Whippersnapper Gallery (Toronto, ON), and Erin Stump Projects (Toronto, ON) and will be included in an upcoming exhibition at Untitled Arts Society (Calgary, AB). Boulos is the recipient of the 20th RBC Canadian Painting Competition and will be the Isabel Pope Artist in Residence at NSCAD University (Halifax, NS) in fall 2021. She is also a member of a Toronto-based project space the plumb and a programmer for the Toronto Palestine Film Festival.