Curator and Jury

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Curator

Saba Heravi

Born in Iran and now based in Tiohtiá:ke/Montreal, Saba Heravi is an Iranian-Canadian artist working across drawing, ceramics, and printmaking. With a background in both architecture and studio arts, her practice is guided by a quiet curiosity about how memories linger in objects, spaces, and the body.

Since earning her BFA from Concordia University in 2019, she has been exploring themes of home, identity, and belonging through handmade forms and quiet encounters. Whether sculpted in clay or shared through participatory moments, Saba’s work invites stillness, reflection, and a gentle kind of connection-one that unfolds slowly, like memory itself.

Memories of things past changes through time and geography. As time passes by, her recollections are altered. Sometimes she consciously chooses to forget parts, and sometimes it happens without her knowledge. All of these transformations in her memories are what defines the history and what makes the identity. Saba tries to rebuild herself through various mediums to figure out her personal identity through past memories and encounters.

Jury

Debbie Foster

Debbie Foster is the founder of Poterie Foster, a ceramics gallery located in Lachine, Quebec, Canada. The gallery features a diverse collection of functional, sculptural, and contemporary ceramic art in a wide range of sizes, forms, glazes, and firing techniques.

Since opening its doors in the fall of 2024, Poterie Foster has hosted numerous solo and group exhibitions, celebrating the richness and diversity of ceramic art. The gallery is envisioned as a welcoming space for both ceramic artists and enthusiasts to connect, exchange ideas, and engage with the medium.

Debbie is a wheel-based potter who began her ceramics journey nine years ago as a hobby, studying under professional potter Robin Badger in Ouest-Bolton, in Quebec’s Eastern Townships. She has since deepened her practice through courses and workshops at the Visual Arts Centre, Centre Rozynski, and Fleming College. Before founding the gallery, Debbie's career was with global organizations, specializing in international human resources and cross-cultural management.

Jennifer Laoun-Rubenstein

Jennifer Laoun-Rubenstein (BFA ’07, Concordia University) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Montreal. She expresses herself through painting, drawing and sculpture, as well as through fibre arts, artisanal practices, and creative writing. Themes of identity, nostalgia, limerence, and erotica underlie the undulations of skin folds, threads, and waterlines recurring in her paintings. Jennifer uses sensorial and intuitive perception to drive her process of visual storytelling, often born of streams of consciousness.

Since 2010, Jennifer has directed the arts and culture support program at Georges Laoun Opticien, a Montreal-based family business recognised for its patronage of the arts by the Conseil des Arts de Montréal and by the City of Montreal. In her function, Jennifer has curated and presented the work of over 300 artists of all disciplines, while strengthening and developing partnerships with numerous arts organizations in Quebec.

Jennifer Laoun-Rubenstein is a professional member of the Regroupement des artistes en arts visuels du Québec (RAAV) and has sat on the boards of the Women's Art Society of Montreal and of WECAN, a nonprofit organisation whose mission is to promote the professional and creative development of Afrodescendant artists and entrepreneurs.


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