Deaf View/Image Art (De’VIA) Storytelling with Maryam Hafizirad

Artist and Educator Maryam Hafizirad invites Deaf, hard-of-hearing, and hearing visitors to engage with the artworks through visual storytelling, ASL, gesture, body language, memory, and shared discussion. Each session will include a short introduction to De’VIA (Deaf View/Image Art), followed by guided storytelling and discussion.

The sessions will be built around water as a central metaphor for Deaf life, drawing on ideas of flow, depth, current, and resilience to explore Deaf identity, memory, and lived experience. This metaphor offers a visual and embodied throughline that connects to the biennial theme Things Fall Apart, and to guided storytelling prompts around access, identity, rupture, language, resistance, visibility, and community.

Inquiries at [email protected].

De’VIA Storytelling with Maryam Hafizirad is made possible in partnership with the Art Museum at the University of Toronto and OCAD University.