Leah Decter | becoming|un|becoming: the art of Leah Decter

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Leah Decter, "l I s t e n (video still)," 2020

single channel colour video with sound, 6 minutes. Courtesy of the Gallery

Opening Reception: Friday September 23 at 6:30pm

becoming|un|becoming: the art of Leah Decter, a major solo exhibition of renowned Canadian artist Leah Decter. For more than 20 years, Decter’s has engaged in a critique of settler colonial sovereignty and the conceptual, administrative, curatorial, and institutional processes that naturalize claims to Indigenous territories. Decter’s creative practice is a thoughtful and sustained investigation of how artists of settler ancestry can engage in meaningful, mutually supportive collaboration with Indigenous artists, scholars, and others when making work that addresses settler-Indigenous relations.

Decter’s artistic practice is dedicated to the critique of settler colonial entitlement, and she frequently models strategies for decolonizing through collaborative engagement. Throughout her career, Decter has prioritized meaningful, mutually supportive collaboration with Indigenous partners, and this new exhibition is the result of long-term collaboration between the artist and the two guest curators, Carla Taunton and Rachelle Dickenson.