Toronto hosted and a new art exhibition entitled "Remains to Be Seen"

PanARMENIAN.Net - Recently Toronto hosted and a new art exhibition entitled "Remains to Be Seen".



Produced under the umbrella of The International Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies in Toronto, the multi-media show hopes to raise the public's awareness about genocide.



Featuring work from 16 artists across North America, well-known Canadian movie director of Armenian heritage, Atom Egoyan says the show at Toronto's Lennox Contemporary gets to the core of what human genocide really means.



"An artist's work can pierce the heart in a different way," says Egoyan.



"In the case of genocide there's been such a history of denial about that," the Canadian director told Canada AM today.

Delving into the subject matter in 2002's "Ararat," Egoyan's movie was loosely based on the Siege of Van during the Armenian Genocide of the early 20th century, an event that is denied by the government of Turkey.



That film explored the specific impact of that historical event. It also examined the nature of truth and its representation through art.



As Egoyan says of "Ararat," "I wasn't so much talking about the historic event, but rather how that denial had created a transmission of trauma from one generation to another."



That tragedy holds deep personal meaning for Egoyan and his wife, actress Arsinée Khanjian.



The after-effects of genocide are clearly evidenced in the works by Ulysses Castellanos, Joyce Lau, Steven Loft, Katie Pretti, Shannon Scully, Veronika Szkudlarek, Bill Wolff and Arie Galles.