Moez Surani & Nina Leo

Join us for an informal and private moment with Moez Surani & Nina Leo, as they share details about their exciting participatory visual art project, exclusively for Focus delegates.

Adapted from the book of the same title, Every Day of Peace in Last Hundred Years focuses on the dates of international conflicts to distill the precise days when there was peace between nations. Visitors will arrive and see twenty-five large-scale sheets of paper mounted on the surrounding walls. On these sheets, handwritten by the artists, are the 36,524 dates from the past hundred years. The dates where there was no peace between countries are accompanied by an asterisk.

The collaborating artists, with the help of the public, will undertake the sizeable task of erasing those dates when the world lacked peace. As the multi-day performance progresses, the sheets will become more bare, and the erased dates and the ghosts of graphite left behind will be an expression of grief, resistance, and reckoning. This participatory work evokes what Martin Luther King termed the “madness of militarism,” and reveals that a day of war is not the exception that headlines lead one to believe; a day of peace is the exceptional story.

This work is adapted from the artist book Every Day of Peace in the Last Hundred Years by Moez Surani, and co-published by Nothing Else Press and Gaspereau Press in 2026.

Co-creators: Moez Surani and Nina Leo

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