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.
echoes catalogue
With texts by jaz, Valeen Jules, Jeffery McNeil-Seymour and Bonnie Klohn and jaye simpson.
Available for sale through the Burnaby Art Gallery.
Email gallery@burnaby.ca to purchase
Watch the Curator's Tour: https://youtu.be/JmI2KnGjLBc?si=kXR8_lFC17dq3ptz
Read a review in West Coast Curated: "A Resounding: Echoes at the Burnaby Art Gallery"
All images courtesy the Kamloops Art Gallery. Photography: Frank Luca.
Installation view of echoes. | Installation view of echoes. |
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jaz whitford, I know this place like the back of my mom’s head | Installation view of echoes showing Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour with Dayna Danger, Two-Spirit M |
Installation view of echoes showing Caroline Monnet, Transatlantic. . Courtesy of the Artist and Gal | Visitors engaging with Nicole Preissl's Nicole Walking with my Ancestors |
nstallation view of echoes showing Maikaʻi Tubbs, Written in Stone (detail). | jaz whitford, I know this place like the back of my mom’s head (detail) |
Installation view of echoes showing in the background (left), Nicole Preissl, Walking with |