Santiago Tavera & Laura Acosta Nora Rosenthal Panel with the Artists
Portrait de Laura Acosta et Santiago Tavera, 2025. Photo : Carlos Riobo / Autoportrait, 2024. Photo : Nora Rosenthal
OBORO invites you to an artist panel featuring the creators of the Winter 2026 exhibitions The Embrace of the Saw and Household Portrait. Laura Acosta, Santiago Tavera, and Nora Rosenthal will discuss their creative processes, the themes that shape their work—rupture, memory, transformation—and the immersive and video-based approaches they explore.
Held in a welcoming atmosphere, this conversation offers the public a unique opportunity to gain insight into the development of their projects presented at OBORO this winter. It is an occasion to meet the artists, ask questions, and deepen your understanding of their practices.
Free admission, everyone welcome. The panel will be held in English, but questions in French are welcome and can be translated.
Portrait de Laura Acosta et Santiago Tavera, 2025. Photo : Carlos Riobo / Autoportrait, 2024. Photo : Nora Rosenthal
Santiago Tavera and Laura Acosta are Colombian-Canadian artists residing in Montreal. They are both MFA graduates from Concordia University, where Tavera is currently an assistant professor in the Department of Studio Arts, and Acosta is pursuing a PhD in Humanities and creative research. In Canada, their transdisciplinary collaboration has been exhibited at OPTICA, MAI, Articule, and Projet Casa in Montreal, Sur Gallery in Toronto, and La Grande Rencontre des Arts Médiatiques in Gaspésie. Internationally, they have showcased their work at the Changwon Sculpture Biennial in South Korea, the International Images Festival of Manizales in Colombia and MTL Connect – Printemps Numériques in Montreal and Belgium. In 2021, they were nominated for the Plein Sud Award, and in 2023, they were longlisted for the Sobey Art Award from the National Gallery of Canada. Their projects have received support from the Canada Council for the Arts and Le Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Québec.
Nora Rosenthal is a writer, filmmaker, and artist whose work has been supported by the Canada Council for the Arts, the NFB, and the Ontario Council for the Arts. She has participated in residencies through the Banff Centre, the RIDM, the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, and UnionDocs in Brooklyn, NY. Formerly the Arts and Culture Editor at Cult MTL, her writing has appeared in Momus, MUBI’s Notebook, The Editorial Magazine and Documentary Magazine. Her short film Nine Easy Dances, nominated for Best Short Documentary by the International Documentary Association in 2024, has played at Visions du Réel, Dokufest Kosovo, and DOK Leipzig, among others, and screened at the Museo Guggenheim Bilbao. The film garnered two Best Director awards during its circuit, and a Jury Award at the Florence Short Film Festival. Since graduating with her MFA in Film Production from York University, she continues to work with researchers at York, and as a filmmaker-mentor with Wapikoni Mobile.