© Callum Hill, E-Minor (2024). Video still.
Callum Hill
E-Minor
From November 13, 2025 to January 17, 2026
Opening on November 13
Callum Hill’s visual essay E-Minor takes as its starting point a linoleum tile in the basement of the artist’s grandparents, which depicts Lou Jacobs, a famous American clown who became the first living person featured on a US postage stamp. The clown's iconography and pop culture’s ominous mythology of basements become a vehicle for enquiring into the human condition. Shot between the US and Europe, Hill inserts a geographic fragmentation to reveal the increasingly constrictive precarities of current-day capitalism and the encroaching omnipresence of ideologies that divide and disempower people.
Callum Hill (1987) is a British-Canadian artist and researcher working predominantly with analogue film. Embedded with a documentary impulse, her works take root from real characters and historical events, which are refracted through the lenses of political and psychological consciousness. Her work has been screened and exhibited internationally, including at International Film Festival Rotterdam, Images Festival (Toronto) and The International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Previous film awards include the New Cinema Award at Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival (2018) and the Artists’ Film Award at Aesthetica Short Film Festival (2016). Her work is distributed by LUX.
Dazibao thanks the artist for her generous collaboration as well as its advisory committee for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that it is located on the unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá:ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples. Guided by ethics of respect, listening, and awareness, Dazibao commits to a continued reflection regarding the deep-rooted and systemic challenges tied to accessibility and inclusivity in the arts and beyond, and endeavors to apply such reflections to all aspects of its activities and governance.