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Special Events
Mary Anne Barkhouse
Le rêve aux loups
July 31 – September 10, 2017
Jill Allan, Chris Cran, Amanda Fox, Micheline Maylor, and Keegan Starlight
September 11 – October 22, 2017
Derek Beaulieu, Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal, Micheline Maylor, Andrew Tarrant, and George Webber
Le rêve aux loups
- Guest curated by Jennifer Rudder
- September 16 – December 22, 2017
- Opening reception: Friday, September 15.
Postcommodity
‘A Very Long Line’
- September 16 – December 22, 2017
- Opening reception: Friday, September 15.
Making Treaty 7: Finding Common Ground
Project Space
July 31 – September 10, 2017
Jill Allan, Chris Cran, Amanda Fox, Micheline Maylor, and Keegan Starlight
September 11 – October 22, 2017
Derek Beaulieu, Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal, Micheline Maylor, Andrew Tarrant, and George Webber
The Exhibition
Mary Anne Barkhouse
Le rêve aux loups
Guest curated by Jennifer Rudder
September 16 – December 22, 2017
Opening reception: Friday, September 15.
The artistic practice of Mary Anne Barkhouse is deeply engaged with environmental and indigenous issues and incorporates in a central role a visual iconography of animals. Barkhouse situates her work between the two worlds of the human and the natural and employs the beaver, raven, wolf, and coyote as symbols of the ability to adapt, persist, regenerate, and repair.
Image credit: Mary Anne Barkhouse, ‘Treats for Coyote,’ 2017, (detail), from the exhibition ‘Le rêve aux loups’. Courtesy the Koffler Gallery. Photograph Rafael Goldchain.
Postcommodity
‘A Very Long Line’
September 16 – December 22, 2017
Opening reception: Friday, September 15.
Opening reception: Friday, September 15.
***Artist talk: Saturday September 16, 1-2:30pm***
‘A Very Long Line’ by artist collective Postcommodity is an immersive four-channel video installation comprised of four screens of moving images, featuring desert landscapes, that are framed by the constant presence of a fence.
Shot along a portion of the border ‘fence’ between Douglas, Arizona, USA and Agua Prieta in Sonora, Mexico we see variations of the fence with its surrounding neighbourhoods and landscapes – although it is not clear which side we are viewing from and to. Beyond documenting a section of the US-Mexico border, ‘A Very Long Line’ captures the deep complexity of border-related issues, with its varied pacing and uncomfortable noise, it acts as a metaphor, critiquing, and asking questions on colonization and contemporary culture.
Making Treaty 7: Finding Common Ground
Project Space
July 31 – September 10, 2017
Jill Allan, Chris Cran, Amanda Fox, Micheline Maylor, and Keegan Starlight
September 11 – October 22, 2017
Derek Beaulieu, Tamara Lee-Anne Cardinal, Micheline Maylor, Andrew Tarrant, and George Webber
This Project Space exhibition is a rotating presentation of works produced in response to the Making Treaty 7 Cultural Society’s Common Ground Dinner Series.
Based on the Making Treaty 7 methodology, this dinner series explored the theme of The Land through eight sub-themes: Energy, Agriculture, Education, Law, Culture, Borders, Safety and Security, and Medicine.
