Graphic header showing title of the exhibition, Aquil Virani: For the people in the back, in a hand-drawn sharpie style, and a close-up image of a colourful artwork showing a light-skinned man's hand, held to his ear, gesturing as if he's listening, next to various handwritten messages in different handwriting styles on ripped pieces of yellow and orange paper.

The art exhibition “For the people in the back” presents over 10 years of participatory art from artist Aquil Virani, uniting personal projects and collaborations with the ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Amplified Opera, The Disability Collective, Montreal’s Imago Theatre, the Silk Road Institute, and the Canadian Museum of Immigration, among others.

The exhibition runs from May 21 until July 23, 2027. Visit Tangled Art + Disability at 401 Richmond St W, #124, Toronto, ON, M5V 3A8 (Phone: 647 725 5064). Masks are mandatory and available. Gallery is accessible. More info at tangledarts.org/accessibility. (More soon.)

Twelve vertical slivers of different projects in the exhibition, presenting a diversity of colours and textures to suggest variety and breadth.

Partial list of artworks or series in exhibition:

2015 — Canada’s Self Portrait (L’autoportrait du Canada) • aquil.ca/canada
2018 — CelebrateHer (CélebronsLa) • aquil.ca/celebrateher
2022 — Our Immigrant Stories • aquil.ca/ourimmigrantstories
2022 — January 29: Commemorative portraits • aquil.ca/january29
2022 — Amplifed Opera: Three important questions
2023 — Things will get better, in collaboration with the ROM • aquil.ca/rom
2024 — AGO Workers Strike with OPSEU Local 535 • aquil.ca/ago
2024 — The Memoir Project • aquil.ca/memoir
2024 — Unpacking Ismaili Identity (the suitcase-artworks) • aquil.ca/unpacking
2025 — Absence, with the Disability Collective
… and more

Various logos for the exhibition, including the Tangled Art + Disability logo, the aquil.ca logo, and the logos for the Canada Council for the Arts, the Ontario Arts Council and the Province of Ontario.