the soil between plants

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Cheyenne Rain LeGrande, “Grieving with the Land” (still), 2021

HD video, 13:41 min. (courtesy the artist)

the soil between plants

Featured Artists:

Ana Ruiz, Ashley Beerdat, Ashna Jacob, Cheyenne Rain Legrande ᑭᒥᐊᐧᐣ, Dana Belcourt, Darrell Spearman, Gabriel Esteban Molina, Holly Aubichon, Ilsa Ahmad, Joni Cheung, Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet, Kyla Yin, Madeline Leblanc, Matias Martinez, Michelle Campos Castillo, Paxsi, Raneece Buddan, Sanaa Humayun, Sunny Chen

the soil between plants explores how we tend to ourselves, our ancestors, the land, and to each other. This exhibition celebrates the collaborative works and collective growth of emerging and mid-career BIPOC artists, designers, and writers in Making Space.

Making Space began in August of 2020 between friends and co-organizers, Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet and Sanaa Humayun, following the need for a space to share stories, skills, and to be in community alongside other BIPOC emerging artists. Our pilot year as a collective grew through mentorship, guidance, and financial support from Latitude 53 and the Mitchell Art Gallery. As part of this pilot year, Latitude 53 extended an invitation to share space through a curatorial project and exhibition, the soil between plants.

When we tend, we look towards softness, tenderness, patience, and the less explainable. The work of tending isn’t without acknowledging the hardships, or the anger; it extends into where we get stuck, how we categorize and are compartmentalized, and where we’re extracted from. We want to honor our labours, the immeasurably important work we do in holding our secrets close, with our hands in our garden's soil, in reliability, resistance, play, in what is exploited under disconnection, and in the invisible and visible work of healing from it all.

To tend is to show care through consistency, to nourish that feeling in our bellies that self-soothes. To pause, to hold, and hold steady. 

the soil between plants is curated by Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet and Sanaa Humayun, with writing curated by Shalaka Jadhav. This statement was written in collaboration between Kiona, Sanaa, and Shalaka.