The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery is proud to participate in the 19th edition of Momenta Biennale d’art contemporain, titled In praise of the missing image, organized by the guest curator Marie-Ann Yemsi. From September 3 to November 1, 2025, artist Raven Chacon (Navajo Nation) will present a solo exhibition at the Gallery; Chacon’s works invite us to imagine political and poetic ways to inhabit the impasses of the present by sketching out paths to the future.

Place where the waters crossed brings together a recent corpus of sound and performative works that explore how Indigenous stories circulate, inhabit the body, and are passed on. Through an experimental sonic approach, Chacon highlights marginalized histories and identities, revealing what is often left out of the frame. The exhibition opens up an active listening space in which environmental justice, Indigenous sovereignty, and collective memory converge, tracing a sensitive cartography of Indigenous struggles and survivance in the face of dominant power structures.

In a world saturated with images, some, strangely, are lacking. This edition of Momenta aims to open up multiple perspectives for experimentation and speculation on the nature, uses, and production of missing images. In praise of the missing image explores both contemporary challenges in relation to the image and the current consequences of the complex dynamics involved in constructing narratives. Which stories are told, how, and by whom?

The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery at Concordia University is committed to researching, exhibiting, documenting and disseminating contemporary art in a local, national and international context.