Exhibition: Echoes

Scott Benesiinaabandan, Jeffrey McNeil-Seymour and Dayna Danger, Caroline Monnet, and Maika’i Tubbs
Guest curated by Emily Dundas Oke

About the Exhibition
As an echo reflects and repeats between entities, this exhibition considers communication between bodies which may be thought to be eclipsed. 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. Selected artworks contemplate the physical and embodied ways in which memory reappears and continues to resonate within the individual and across generations.

Through practices such as ceremony and revisitations of the voyages of one’s ancestors, the artists included in this exhibition call upon knowledge systems that do not rely on the written word, but rather assert a continuity and interconnectedness between body, land, and water. Through videoworks, digital prints, and sculpture, the artists demand we question our own contributions to a shared futurity.

About the Artist
Emily Dundas Oke is an emerging curator and artist. Her work addresses complicated relationships to land as they are embodied within the performative work of contemporary Indigenous artists. A 2018 graduate of Thompson Rivers University (TRU), she is an alumni of the TRU Indigenous Knowledge Makers program and is the recipient of numerous awards including the Ken Lepin Award of Excellence. She is a grateful Cree, Metis, Scottish, and English visitor on the unceded and ancestral territories of the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations.
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