May the Land Remember You As You Walk Upon Its Surface

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Katherine Boyer, "Meeting Grans Over Tea and Bangs Nowananikkwee, Marguerite, Rosalie, Emilie, Mary," 2019

Opening reception and catalogue launch on First Friday, Feb 7^th 5-9 PM

May the Land Remember You As You Walk Upon Its Surface is a group exhibition featuring the contemporary beadwork of artists Katherine Boyer, Dayna Danger, Camille Georgeson-Usher and assinajaq curated by Franchesca Hebert-Spence.

Land is not property, a static source of resources to be bought and sold. Land is alive, its value expressed through meaningful collaboration with those who interact with it. Land offers context for understanding the cultures that have historically inhabited them. Forced separation from the land has a profound impact on the individuals, communities and cultures that have formed through their connections to land and place. 

“The separation from this significance by force, coercion or otherwise, is a multi-layered personal rupture” - Franchesca Hebert-Spence, curator

The work of Boyer, Danger, Georgeson-Usher and assinajaq express the connection beadwork has with the land, offering new cultural markers for separated and displaced communities across time.