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April 29, 2023 05:00 PM October 23, 2023 12:00 AM
Curated by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques & Denise Ryner
While Black: a forum for speculation on what the gallery can’t hold is a multi-year series of forums, talks, and public presentations developed and organized by Black curators from across Canada in conversation with artists to consider both the limits and possibilities of the relationship between contemporary art spaces in Canada and Black art, artists, arts workers, and audiences. This project is a collaboration between Or Gallery, the Confederation Centre Art Gallery, and the AGGV, and is organized by Charles Campbell, Michelle Jacques and Denise Ryner in consultation with Pamela Edmonds, Alyssa Fearon, Dominique Fontaine, Sally Frater, Bushra Junaid, Crystal Mowry, Allison Yearwood.
In 2021, the curators asked each artist to produce a document of their relationship to the art gallery and its systems of representation as Black artists working in Canada, including consideration of the project query what the gallery can’t hold? Through multimodal and multimedia responses, these ten artists offered questions, imperatives, proposals and insight into their own experiences within contemporary art institutions. Since While Black was intended to initiate conversation and exchange between artists, curators and audiences, space to talk, respond and introduce new questions and ideas into the project is an important element within the presentation space. Artists in the iteration at the AGGV present questions, imperatives, narratives, and proposals to initiate exchange on the space for Black art in public culture with local respondents, collaborating curators and gallery visitors. As well as three exhibitions of these projects at Or Gallery (Vancouver), Confederation Centre Art Gallery (Charlottetown), and now the AGGV, While Black has also included two discursive gatherings in Montreal and Saskatoon.
Artists include: Lucie Chan (Vancouver, BC), Karma Clarke-Davis (Toronto, ON/Berlin, Germany), Kemi Craig (Victoria, BC), Spatial Esk (Toronto, ON), Stanley Février (Montréal, QC), Iyunade Judah (Winnipeg, MB), Anna Jane McIntyre (Montreal, QC), Chukwudubem Ukaigwe (Winnipeg, MB), Jan Wade (Vancouver, BC), Valérie D. Walker (Vancouver, BC).
Exhibition runs April 29, 2023 - October 22, 2023
Image Credit: Iyunade Judah, Bond, 2019, digital print
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September 23, 2023 12:00 AM 02:00 AM
Celebrate the opening of Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree: Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moinishirazi at Legacy Art Gallery. The exhibition, organized by the West Vancouver Art Museum and curated by Hilary Letwin and Anahita Ranjbar, explores the power of Persian poetry for self-expression and cultural preservation through the works of two Persian-Canadian artists.
The evening will include an introduction to the exhibition. Persian snacks and tea will be served.
Free & open to the public.
Image: Pari Azarm Motamedi, Freedom… for man, all he is searching for is freedom, 1994.
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September 23, 2023 05:00 PM January 22, 2024 01:00 AM
SEPTEMBER 23, 2023 - JANUARY 21, 2024
Curated by Guest Curator Kathryn Bridge
Victoria-born and raised, Sophie Pemberton was the middle daughter, her father’s favourite, and a determined personality. Despite episodes of debilitating illnesses and family tragedies, she pursued a serious international artistic career with paintings exhibited at the Royal Academy and Paris Salon. A portraitist by training, she was also a landscape painter of great talent. Through her international connections and friendships forged at art school in England and France with the advantages of birth and position, Pemberton aimed to become a professional artist, a career not readily accomplished by a woman at this time in history.
This exhibition discusses Pemberton’s life, her family and social networks, her art training and accomplishments, and the historical times in which she lived. It includes women’s suffrage, the rise of modernism, the role of post impressionism in Canada and within Sophie’s own world, and of the influence she brings to today’s world.
This exhibition is generously supported by the Gallery Associates. Image Credit: Sophie Pemberton, Driveway of Groos Mansion on Newport Ave., Victoria, oil, 45.7 x 61.7 cm. Gift of George and Lola Kidd. AGGV 1995.040.001
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September 23, 2023 05:00 PM December 10, 2023 12:00 AM
Legacy Downtown | 630 Yates St.
Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree: Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moinishirazi is an exhibition that delves into the deep impact of leaving one's homeland and the need for a connection to one's roots. This show explores the power of Persian poetry as a foundation of cultural preservation and self-expression via the works of Persian-Canadian artists Pari Azarm Motamedi and Rozita Moinishirazi. Motamedi and Moinishirazi expertly translate and modernize classic Persian symbols, and stories, uncovering hidden messages in poems and tackling socio-political challenges in their nation. These artists inspire us to consider the complications of displacement and the everlasting value of art in bridging cultural barriers with powerful vision and elegant brushwork.
Organized by the West Vancouver Art Museum.
Curated by Hilary Letwin and Anahita Ranjbar.
Free & open to the public.
Image: Rozita Moinishirazi, The Valley of Unity (detail), 2022.
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September 23, 2023 05:00 PM December 10, 2023 12:00 AM
Untitled ṮEṮÁĆES is the result of an artistic collaboration between TEMOSEṈ Charles “Chazz” Elliott (Lekwungen/W̱SÁNEĆ), Jesse Campbell (Métis) and Dr. Kim Shortreed to prototype a motion-activated art installation that speaks aloud toponyms, or place names, in SENĆOŦEN and English.
This non-traditional map is an artograph of the islands that surround W̱SÁNEĆ territories, in the Salish Sea, including the place settlers call the Saanich Peninsula.
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September 23, 2023 09:00 PM 11:00 PM
Join the artists from Under the Shade of the Lotus Tree for a Persian poetry reading and discussion in Farsi and English.
Free & to the public
Image: Rozita Moinishirazi, The Valley of Unity, 2022.
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