DECONSTRUCTING COMFORT
Program, P.2432
- Identifier
- P.2432
- Category
- Visual Arts
- Date
- September 8 – October 14, 2017
- Description
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Opening at Open Space on Sept. 8, Deconstructing Comfort is an interdisciplinary arts exhibition presenting the work of seven contemporary Indigenous artists and artists of colour: Léuli Eshraghi, Jamelie Hassan, Syrus Marcus Ware, Lisa Myers, Nadia Myre, Haruko Okano and Philip Kevin Paul.
Exhibition co-curators Michelle Jacques, Doug Jarvis and France Trépanier have developed a process-based approach to explore contemporary themes present in the Canadian body politic: decolonization and Indigenization; issues raised by Black Lives Matter; calls to action from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission; Islamophobia; unsettling settlers and Canada 150 celebrations. The exhibition examines interrogating these spaces of [dis] comfort to generate transformation and change.
The curatorial strategy employed for Deconstructing Comfort will look to reveal the artistic and curatorial processes, inviting collaborations about the notions of space and time, ultimately questioning the fixedness of the exhibition format.
Deconstructing Comfort runs to Oct. 14, 2017. A public reception will take place on Sept. 25 as part of the public program for the Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires gathering.
Primary Colours/Couleurs primaires (PC/Cp) is a three year initiative, which seeks to place Indigenous art practices at the centre of the Canadian art system. PC/Cp also asserts that art practices by people of colour, that have roots around the world, play a critical role in any discussion that imagines Canada’s future(s). This initiative includes a major, multidisciplinary, trilingual - Lekwungen, French and English - gathering at the Songhees Wellness Centre, on Lekwungen territories, near Victoria BC. www.primary-colours.ca