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Past Exhibition

the currents that carry us

From

September 23, 2023

Until

January 7, 2024

Venue

Confederation Centre Art Gallery

The Exhibition

Seeking out place is a personal endeavour. A physical action that compels us to not just recognize the land and spaces we inhabit, but the relationships we create and the memories we collect. What do I remember from this place and how do I tell its story? Is the memory from a time I can grasp? Is it from a land I know? What am I doing here? How has this place changed others? How has it changed me?

Considering place through the long-lived tradition of storytelling in Atlantic Canada allows for a rich transfer of knowledge about the known and unknown worlds. Here, place can be understood as a community percolating with stories about shared rural upbringings, endearing anecdotes from the shores, and peculiar island secrets. Meditating on place is how we hold on to the past, and storytelling is the current that carries us forward.

Channelled through the artwork of eight emerging artists with origins or long-standing relationships to the provinces of Atlantic Canada, this exhibition pursues storytelling that isn’t rooted in written or spoken word. The artists take the expectations of the medium and they twist it—building new and experimental ways of storytelling which match the variable ways we remember place: through smell, touch, sound, and sight. the currents that carry us is a contemporary and interdisciplinary take on storytelling explored through such material manipulation. Ultimately, these stories converge around what the provinces share: the water that flows around this land and what it takes away, leaves us with, and teaches us.

Curated by Roxanne Fernandes, featuring works by Alex Antle, Carley Mullally, Emily Shaw, Jordan Beaulieu, Morgan Possberg Denne, Natalie Michelle Goulet, Nicole Rampersaud, and Somnia Lucent.

Supported by RBC Foundation. 

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