Kinzi Dempsey is a travelling interdisciplinary artist and photographer based primarily out of Cairo, Egypt and Toronto, Ontario. Her dual-national identity, upbringing in international contexts, as well as a family background in experiential education and relief & development work has created a bedrock of interest in cultural narratives, liminal spaces, and hybrid identities in social contexts. Her practice right now looks to explore these ideas of her own ‘mestiza’ identity through notions of the auto-ethnographic researcher, astronaut, and archeologist: How might object methodologies, relational aesthetic practices and playful pedagogies reveal the physical and metaphysical places we occupy?At this moment in time, Covid-19 has found her in Egypt for the last year where she has been able to spend her time exploring the desert, rifling through family objects, and thinking on her sunny rooftop- all while maintaining online connections back to her friends, family & schoolmates in Toronto. Join her for her "Belraha - بالراحة" reading aloud event on Saturday, May 8 at 11:00 EST- details can be found in the Belraha Collection below.