Matthew Leander Kalil is an interdisciplinary artist whose work moves through text, sound, figure, space, and image.
He studied Philosophy (BA) at The New School and Architecture (M.Arch) at The University of Toronto.
He has worked at Office of Adrian Phiffer and is a researcher and editor at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
Leander’s work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
He lives in Montréal.
m.leanderkalil@gmail.com
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*An essay written by Leander Kalil and Francesco Garutti has been published in the book Curatorial Design, A Place Between (Lenz Press).
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*Short film project Water Tricks has received funding from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Production is planned for July 2025.
Four Rooms
2025
These are four linocut prints produced for the installation Four Rooms by the Toronto collective Elsewhere (Katrina Jurjans, Nellie Jalal Zadeh, Mehdi Latifian), exhibited at Gallery 1888 in Toronto. The four-chapter installation was an exploration of what Elsewhere calls the “four cardinal domestic quarters”. The installation held the four quarters in simultaneity, but each week one of the four was made predominant through cinematic, musical, and practical effects. Concordant with this, and echoeing the Tarot, each week one of the four cards was offered to visitors.
https://elsewhereishere.com/
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