© Tyra Maria Trono, feel free to look, photography (2026)
Tyra Maria Trono
feel free to look · walang bayad tumingin· n’hésitez pas à regarder
From April 24 to June 12, 2027
Opening on April 24 at 6 pm
Tyra Maria Trono’s hyperdense photographic assemblages examine, with a kind of joyful obsession, the material and visual languages that shape her everyday Filipino diasporic experience. feel free to look · walang bayad tumingin · n’hésitez pas à regarder explores spaces that double as market stalls and living rooms, meeting places where gossip operates as an informal process of preserving heritage. Developed through several trips to the Philippines, the artist’s examination of the market also attends playfully to the particularities and peculiarities of vernacular Catholic imagery and dollar-store aesthetics, both of which inscribe themselves into forms of cultural and familial participation.
Tyra Maria Trono is a Filipino artist based between Tiohtià:ke / Mooniyang / Montreal and Manila, Philippines. She is currently pursuing a Master of Fine Arts in Studio Arts in Photography at Concordia University. She is the recipient of the Roloff Beny Fellowship in Photography, the Lande Award in Photography, the Mitacs Globalink Research Award, and was shortlisted for the Purita Kalaw-Ledesma Prizes in Art Criticism at the Ateneo Art Gallery. In 2026, she presented her first solo exhibition at VU and has exhibited at Manif d’art (Quebec City), Leonard & Bina Ellen Gallery, and Céline Bureau (Montreal).
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Erfan Aboutalebi
From April 24 to June 12, 2027
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.