border crossings: Creating Parallel Histories
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niigaanikwewag
MARCH 28 - JUNE 16, 2019
An Art Gallery of Mississauga Project
Guest-curated by Rheanne Chartrand, Developed in collaboration with and featuring the work of the Mississauga communities.
https://www.artgalleryofmississauga.com/niigaanikwewag
https://akimbo.ca/akimblog/niigaanikwewag-at-art-gallery-of-mississauga/
niigaanikwewag | Thirza Cuthand | Inuit Art Quarterly | Summer 2018 Issue| June 28, 2018
Featuring works by: Kenojuak Ashevak, Christi Belcourt, Rebecca Belmore, Joane Cardinal-Schubert, Vanessa Dion Fletcher, Rosalie Favell, Rita Letendre, Tanya Lukin Linklater, Meryl McMaster, Caroline Monnet, Marianne Nicolson, Shelley Niro, Daphne Odjig, Annie Pootoogook, Rolande Souliere, and Olivia Whetung.
niigaanikwewag brings together notable works by senior, mid-career, and emerging female Indigenous artists to celebrate past, present, and future generations of kwes as integral to sustaining the creative spirit of Indigenous communities. Foregrounding kinship, the artworks in niigaanikwewag embody and express the blood ties Indigenous women have to each other and to [our] Mother Earth.
niigaanikwewag is a one-year curatorial project bookended by two exhibitions that acknowledges and pays respect to the non-binary feminine creative spirit that continues to birth Indigenous futurities in provocative and meaningful ways.
Image Credit: Caroline Monnet, Creatura Dada, 2016, digital still, (detail). Courtesy of the artist
Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
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Bonnie Devine: Circles and Lines
SEPTEMBER 6 - DECEMBER 21, 2018
An Art Gallery of Mississauga Project, Guest Curated by Raven Davis
This project uses various media and mapping strategies to explore the complex colonial histories of the north shores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, which include the cities of Mississauga and Toronto and the traditional territories of the Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) and the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations of the Grand River).
This project uses various media and mapping strategies to explore the complex colonial histories of the north shores of Lake Erie and Lake Ontario, which include the cities of Mississauga and Toronto and the traditional territories of the Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) and the Haudenosaunee (Six Nations of the Grand River).
A member of Serpent River First Nation, Genaabaajing, an Anishinaabe Ojibwa territory on the north shore of Lake Huron, Bonnie Devine’s work emerges from the storytelling and image-making traditions she witnessed as a child. Her art explores issues of land and environment, treaty and history. She is an artist, curator, writer, and educator. Though formally educated at the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD U) and York University, her most enduring learning came from her grandparents, who were trappers on the Canadian Shield. Devine’s installation, video, and curatorial projects have been shown in solo and group exhibitions and film festivals across Canada and in the USA, South America, Russia, Europe, and China, including the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Berlin Film Festival, the National Museum of the American Indian, and Today Art Museum in Beijing.
Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
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FOUR LANDS
JANUARY 22 - APRIL 15, 2018
Guest-curated by Ruth Howard
https://www.organicdrift.space/fourlands
http://www.jumbliestheatre.org/jumblies/current-projects/four-lands
Four Lands is an interdisciplinary, collaborative project, organized in partnership with Jumblies Theatre, which explores and expresses people's differing relationships to a place. Four Lands takes the form of an evolving gallery, ongoing public drop-ins, offsite workshops and other activities as arranged (artist/historical talks, visits by specific community groups, professional development workshops), a project launch and final presentation and celebration. Artists and diverse community members will create and bring to life their own lands, through drawings, words, miniature models, music, conversation and performance. The Mississauga artistic team includes Ruth Howard, Adrienne Marcus Raja, Sharada Eswar, Laura Hale, Heather Long, Binaeshee-Quae Couchie-Nabigon, Marianne Alas, Mandy Salter and others.
Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
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This project is supported by the Hazel McCallion Fund at the Community Foundation of Mississauga, the Ontario Arts Council, the Government of Ontario, and the Canada Council for the Arts.
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OUR COLLABORATORS
Brampton Public Library, Making Room Community Arts, MABELLEarts, Lougheed Middle School, Corsair Public School, INK Movement, Mississauga Writers Group, Community Living Mississauga, QTBIPOC’sauga, Mississauga Pathfinders, Sojourn House with Mammalian Diving Reflex, Halton Community Youth Program, UTM/Sheridan College and over 600 creative participants from Mississauga, Peel and the GTA.
Four Lands, Resource Room. Art Gallery of Mississauga, Photo by Toni
VIVEK SHRAYA
TRISHA
MAY 4 – JUNE 18, 2017
An Art Gallery of Mississauga Project, Curated by Kendra Ainsworth
Trisha is a photo essay from Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist, musician and writer Vivek Shraya. Shraya recreates the scenes from vintage photographs of her mother as a way of both asserting connection and discovering difference between their experiences of femininity.
In Trisha, Shraya presents found photographs of her mother alongside her own, painstakingly re-staged ones, with herself standing in for her mother as subject. In the text that accompanies the photo series, Shrarya speaks of the experience, while growing up, of aspiring to be like her mother and the shock of encountering, through these photographs, that her mother was then, as now, not only her mother but a woman in her own right, with a history and identity that went beyond what Shraya had known. In the original photographs, Shraya's mother is alone in the frame, often staring directly into the camera - at times seductive, defiant, or contemplative. In replicating these scenes, these looks, Shraya positions the camera - and the viewer - as a conduit for connection across time, across generatoins; the artist's mother looking into her future, perhaps anticipating a yet conceived of family looking back, and Sraya, placing herself almost literally in her mother's shoes, looking out from her own vantage point back to her mother at the same age.
There is a power and vulnerability in Trisha. As Shrarya remakes herself in her mother's image, her text poetically and poignantly speaks to how this action might have been perceived by her. In performing femininity in her mother's likeness, Shraya is both resolute - speaking back to the world that still sees women and the feminine as at best inferior and which caused her mother to pray for sons, and wistful - considering, perhaps, who Trisha might be and what her relationship with Shraya's mother might be like.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQZ_lYCt14s&t=15s
Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
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CANADIAN BELONGING(S)
MAY 5 - JULY 13, 2016
Guest curated by Ellyn Walker
Featuring artwork and performances by: BASIL ALZERI, PANSEE ATTA, SONNY ASSU, CINDY BLAŽEVIC ́, VANESSA DION FLETCHER, CHERYL L’HIRONDELLE, KRISTIE MACDONALD, MERYL MCMASTER, ABDI OSMAN
FEATURED EXHIBITION IN THE SCOTIABANK CONTACT PHOTOGRAPHY FESTIVAL
Winner of the 2017 Ontario Association of Art Galleries Thematic Exhibition of the Year Award - Budget under $20,000
Nine artists explore the image and document as critical sites for complicating dominant settler-colonial narratives of Canadian identity. In doing so, they demonstrate nuanced examples of what it means to "belong" on the land now known as Canada through their material (re)negotiations of the postcard, passport, scrapbook, landscape, portrait, treaty and wampum.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAOJxcmYBFE&t=4s
Photo credit: Toni Hafkenscheid
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