Opening Sept. 18 at the Legacy Art Gallery in Victoria, The Chorus is Speaking is one of two touring exhibitions in B.C. The other exhibition, I am my mother’s daughter | میں اپنی ماں کی بیٹی ہوں, is currently on at The Reach Gallery Museum in Abbotsford until March 2025.
Sara Lopez Assu, executive director of the Campbell River Art Gallery, said the city's gallery is gaining recognition for its outstanding contributions to the Canadian art scene.
"Touring exhibitions is a fantastic way for us to raise our profile and bring recognition for the work we do back to Campbell River and our local thriving art scene," Assu said.
The Chorus is Speaking is a group exhibition of eight artists of incredible inventiveness and insight, which includes Ojo Agi, Christina Battle, Charles Campbell, Chantal Gibson, Dana Inkster, Karin Jones, Jan Wade, and Syrus Marcus Ware.
Speaking to the Black experience on Turtle Island, the exhibit is the expression of a curatorial partnership between Jenelle Pasiechnik, contemporary art curator, and Michelle Jacques, Remai Modern's chief curator.
The diverse work of this incredible group of creatives, thinkers, and change-makers creates a space where the Black community of Victoria can come to feel supported and inspired, the gallery said.
“We are so proud to have exhibitions touring from our small but mighty gallery, said Jenelle Pasiechnik, the gallery's contemporary art curator. "The work we do resonates with audiences across the province and the country."
The second exhibition on tour is I am my mother’s daughter | میں اپنی ماں کی بیٹی ہوں which opened at The Reach Gallery Museum on July 6 and is already receiving fantastic reviews, reads the release.
The conceptually rich exhibition by artist Farheen Haq includes video, photography, and sculptural installation. It honours the resilience and knowledge systems of Haq’s mother, who came to Canada in the 1970s to meet her future husband in an arranged marriage, settling in Ontario's Niagara region, located in Haudenosaunee Territory.
The exhibition intertwines inter-generational relationships, linking the experiences of the artist's mother with Haq’s own childhood reflections on that union, and how it has influenced her experience as a mother, said the gallery. The artist explores how she carries the past and how she determines its legacy into the future.
