Driven by a close engagement with how images perform in our current moment, Toronto-based artist Nadia Belerique combines photography and sculptural installation to track the shifting relationship between the perceptual, the psychological and the representational. Frequently pushing at the limits of the photographic image — both real and imagined — Belerique's works regularly stage scenes that confuse or conflate figure and ground, image and object, signifier and signified. As an Azorean descendant, this residency will be the artist’s first time engaging with the islands directly. Following previous projects, Bed Island, 2016, and The Weather Channel, 2018, Belerique’s research into the metaphoric and psychological phenomenon of the island-as-body in the advent of rising sea levels, will reach a more personal-historical focus, and specifically reference these significant nine islands in the center of the Atlantic ocean.