BLACK DRONES IN THE HIVE
Deanna Bowen
Central Gallery
September 23 to December 30, 2023
Curated by Crystal Mowry
For more than 20 years, Deanna Bowen’s practice has evolved from its roots in experimental documentary video into a complex mapping of power as seen in public and private archives. Research and exhibitions are rarely mutually exclusive modes for Bowen, in part because her subjects reveal new perspectives over time. Whether it is through strategies of re-enactment or dense constellations of archival material, Bowen’s work traces her familial history within a broader narrative of Black survival in Canada and the United States.
TOB TOB KIN
Paula Ducharme
The Cube
September 16 to December 30, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
In a new body of work called Tob Tob Kin, Paula Ducharme, a recent Thompson Rivers University Bachelor of Fine Arts graduate, fuses traditional and contemporary materials and ideas to explore her Indigenous ancestry.
Generously sponsored by Wilson M. Beck Insurance Services Inc.
LUMINOCITY
Cooper Battersby and Emily Vey Duke // Shiraz Bayjoo // Blaine Campbell // Carolina Caycedo // Denise Ferreira da Silva and Arjuna Neuman // Luciana Freire D'Anunciação // Marja Helander // Cheyenne Rain LeGrande // Beric Manywounds // Natalie Purschwitz // Ahilapalapa Rands // Genevieve Robertson
Kamloops Art Gallery & Riverside Park
October 14 to 21, 2023
Curated by Emily Dundas Oke and Charo Neville
Luminocity, a week-long outdoor video art exhibition, returns to the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw this fall. Dynamic video projections and immersive light experiences will fill the grass field at Riverside Park and transform the exterior of the Kamloops Art Gallery. With projects that range from narrative storytelling to experimental film and animation, accompanied by nightly tours in the Riverside Park, Luminocity offers a portal to urban transformation and insightful encounters for all ages.
ECHOES
Scott Benesiinaabandan // Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour & Dayna Danger // Caroline Monnet // Nicole Preissl // Maika‘i Tubbs // jaz whitford
Central Gallery
July 15 to September 9, 2023
Curated by Emily Dundas Oke
“Water connects us all.” - Elder Dr. Margaret Vickers Hyslop
As an echo reflects and repeats between entities, this exhibition contemplates ways recurrences traverse generational and geographical expanses. An echo is a continuation that needs a physical body on which to resound. Here, the bodies of water and the physical remnants of stone, plastic, and land become the houses for the historical traces of change and continuity. The works in this exhibition explore the physical and embodied ways in which memory appears and continues to resonate within individuals and across generations. Through practices such as ceremony and revisitations of the voyages of one’s ancestors, the artists included in echoes call upon knowledge systems that do not rely on the written word, but rather assert a continuity and interconnectedness between body, land, and water. Each of these entities also demonstrate their agency as knowing beings. These practices and beliefs posit specific notions of time while entangling our bodies within processes of remembering.
echoes is organized and circulated by the Burnaby Art Gallery, and curated by Emily Dundas Oke.
THE FADEAWAY
Mallory Tolcher
The Cube
July 8 to September 9, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
The iconic fadeaway jump shot in basketball is executed when the shooter gracefully and effortlessly glides away from the defender while still maintaining control of the ball. In The Fadeaway artist Mallory Tolcher captures the essence of this move by focusing attention on the history of women’s basketball. Through a series of photographs, sculptures, and textiles, Tolcher challenges gender stereotypes of women in sport and celebrates the rise and acceptance of professional women’s basketball. In the context of prescribed social gender roles, basketball was historically deemed too rough and cardiovascular for women. Despite these attitudes, women’s professional basketball has excelled. As the game has evolved, calls for equality, empowerment, and social justice have been amplified.
I KNOW ABOUT LOTS OF THINGS I’VE NEVER SEEN. AND SO DO YOU.
Zoe Kreye
Central Gallery
April 22 to June 30, 2023
Curated by Charo Neville
Breathe, listen, feel, connect, observe. Tune into a sensation in your body. What is it telling you?
I know about lots of things I’ve never seen. And so do you. invites us to trust our internal knowledge. The exhibition shares work by Vancouver-based artist Zoe Kreye created through a studio practice informed by politicized somatics which grounds the artist in her body and allows her to connect with creative forces informed by her bodily sensations.
Generously supported by the Women’s Art Initiative and Jane Irwin and Ross Hill
THE 215 LE ESTCWICWÉY̓ (“THE MISSING”)
Johnny Bandura
The Cube
April 15 to June 24, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
Upon hearing the news in May of 2021 of the 215 children discovered in graves at the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, Johnny Bandura began painting 215 portraits as a therapeutic process. He felt compelled to respond to the findings as his grandmother was a Residential School survivor from Kamloops and Bandura remains connected to family in the region.
GLACIAL RESONANCE
Paul Walde
Central Gallery
January 21 to April 1, 2023
Curated by Charo Neville
Presenting the glacier as a central protagonist, Glacial Resonance brings the stark reality of otherwise distant mountain ranges to the forefront. A solo exhibition of ambitious projects by Canadian artist Paul Walde, Glacial Resonance shares the artist’s enduring concern about environmental crises, channelled through sound and video. Best known for his interdisciplinary performances staged in the natural environment, Walde’s work often involves music and choreography. His immersive installations materialize from projects on mountain sides and from deep in old growth forests that involve myriad volunteers and performers, and technically ̶ and geographically - challenging logistics. The splendor and sense of awe evoked by these landscapes, emphasized through the embodied sound experience of Walde’s installations, offer alternative modes in which to traverse the overwhelming scale of climate change.
QUEER NEWFOUNDLAND HOCKEY LEAGUE (QNHL)
Lucas Morneau
The Cube
January 14 to April 1, 2023
Curated by Craig Willms
Playfully and provocatively challenging the prevalence of homophobia and hyper-masculinity in the culture of team sports, Lucas Morneau’s Queer Newfoundland Hockey League (QNHL) proposes 14 fictional teams that reclaim, empower, and amplify LGBTQIA2S+ voices. With team names that include the St. John’s Sissies, Bonavista Buggers, and Ferryland Fairies, Morneau subverts pejoratives used against the LGBTQIA2S+ community, paired with places historically associated with senior hockey league teams in Newfoundland and Labrador.