echoes
Kamloops Art Gallery
July 15 to September 9, 2023

Burnaby Art Gallery 
November 29, 2019 - January 26, 2020

echoes is a travelling and iterative exhibition.

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.

echoes is organized and circulated by the Burnaby Art Gallery and dedicated to the memory of Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour, who advocated tirelessly for the protection of land, waters, and two-spirit youth.

All images courtesy the Kamloops Art Gallery. Photography: Frank Luca.