Dion Smith-Dokkie | This Is The First of a Thousand Worlds We Give Life To
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Gallery Gachet 9 West Hastings Street, Vancouver, British Columbia V6B 1G4
Dion Smith-Dokkie, “This Is The First of a Thousand Worlds We Give Life To,” 2024
(courtesy of the gallery)
Since 2014, Smith-Dokkie has embarked on a personal and critical investigation of the resource extraction industries in northeastern British Columbia (NEBC) and their impalpable impacts on the area's landscape and residents. The exhibition is a physical manifestation of research, ideas and themes concerning neo-colonial expansive terraformation and gestures that mark Indigenous autonomy and presence in the face of continuing settler colonial dispossession.