Pushing Boundaries exhibition showcases and celebrates contemporary Indigenous artists
The theme of the group show at Cityscape Community ArtSpace is “Finding Our Place: Beading and Weaving Our Culture Together”
Salisha Old Bull, Chmtews Cradleboard (detail), 2014
Pushing Boundaries is a biennial group exhibition showcasing and celebrating contemporary Indigenous artists now running at CityScape Community ArtSpace (335 Lonsdale Avenue, North Vancouver) until November 13.
Launched in 2011, the sixth edition is guest curated by Nehiyaw/Métis visual artist Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau and is titled “Finding Our Place: Beading and Weaving Our Culture Together”.
“Part of the purpose of this exhibition is to relocate Indigenous culture, particularly weaving and beading in the now. Often this type of work is placed in a historical context, we are taught it belongs somewhere between the Stone Age and the Mesopotamians. This mindset asserts an authenticity in the past, but an erasure of current living cultures. Like the fibres spun together, we are stronger when we find our place in community and as the beads in a mosaic, we can shine when we are placed in the right situations,” Arseneau said in a statement.
Nathalie Bertin, Moccusion - Hunter Wolves
The exhibition features some of Arseneau’s ‘Cradle boards with Mossbag Babies’. The five other artists are Nathalie Bertin, who’s of Métis, French, Anishinaabe and Algonquin ancestry; Naomi Bourque, of Gwich’in, Métis, and Scandinavian ancestry; Salisha Old Bull, of Salish and Crow descent; Melody Markle, Algonquian Anishinaabe from the Long Point First Nation; and Michelle Sound, Cree and Métis originally from the Wapsewsipi/Swan River First Nation.
On October 21 at 7 pm, there will be an in-person and online discussion with Arseneau and Old Bull. Pushing Boundaries is supported by the Deux Mille Foundation.
More information is at North Van Arts.
Melody Markle, Honouring Our Mother.
Post sponsored by North Van Arts.