I went to the 2018 Fine Arts Auction in Mississauga, before the big auction gala (I wasn't willing to pay $80 just to attend). Square One was the locale where the AGM attempted to bring art to the masses (if you have $80, that is), but they cleverly had the works on display about a week before the event, and you could bid online.
I took photos of some works, and also downloaded all the artists' works from various sites (the AGM Facebook page, the auction's ticket purchase page, the auction site, etc.).
Mahmood presented her work Whispers in Theatre, and was also part of the literati that attended the gala.
The going price for Whispers in Theatre was $800-900, but it doesn't appear to have sold at the auction.
Whsipers in Theatre has that same ephemeral quality that I described in another of Mahmood's piece here as "an ephemera, a wisp of unidentified/unidentifiable human forms."
But that is neither here nor there. Mahmood has been staking out her territory in Mississauga from way back. She was Board of Director of the Mississauga Arts Council in 2012, but her main activity has been to promote ethnic-based art and culture events which focus on her own background from the Indian sub-continent, going as far back as 2003.
Mahmood is not new at this. And Mississauga's arts culture is part of her stake out.
Mahmood with her husband at the 2018 AGM/Square One Art Auction, in the Square One Rotunda.
Mahmood with Kendra Ainsworth (far right), then Curator of Contemporary Art at the AGM, who mysteriously left her post, and the AGM, a month later.
Viewing room in the Square One Mall/Shopping Centre, where I saw the auction pieces before the big, gala, event.