Walter Segers

Walter Segers’ photo-based practice examines migration, belonging, queer ecology, and material transformation through layered processes of image-making, mapping, and intervention. In my latest series Fractured Landscapes, cyanotype, found maps, water, cloth, fishing line, handmade plant pigments, and site-responsive actions become methods for considering landscape as both memory and rupture. These works resist the idea of landscape as fixed or untouched; instead, they reveal it as a shifting terrain shaped by personal history, environmental change, colonial mapping, and embodied encounters with land and water. Through staining, exposure, stitching, dye, and fragmented cartography, Segers creates images that register absence, displacement, intimacy, and reconstruction.

Walter Segers is a Toronto-based artist who emigrated from Belgium in 1993. He graduated with honours from OCAD University in 2008 and received the M.C. McCain Post Graduate Photography Residency in 2009. He was an artist-in-residence at the Museum of Contemporary Art Toronto through Akin Studio Program in 2018–2019 and has attended three queer artist residencies in Northern Ontario and on the east coast of Newfoundland and Labrador organized by The Throbbing Rose Collective, of which he is a member. Segers has exhibited in Toronto, across Ontario, and internationally in New York, Paris, Belgium, UK, Spain, and Czechia. His work has been published in the Globe & Mail, ArtWindsor, Muse, and Wondereur. His practice explores gender, sexuality, immigration, identity, isolation, and belonging through photography, installation, handmade processes, and material experimentation.

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