House of Bâby at Union Station

December 25, 2022

House of Bâby, created collaboratively by Camal Pirbhai and Camille Turner, is a 35’ lenticular image on view in Union Station’s majestic Great Hall. The image commemorates eighteen of the Black and Indigenous people who were claimed as property by the prominent Bâby family of Toronto, Windsor and Detroit. In this image they are brought to life, no longer constrained by the past as property nor languishing in the obscurity of the archive. As the viewer moves, the group, represented as contemporary travellers, emerges from the blur of the crowd.