embalmed funks // Michaela Bridgemohan at The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
Date:
Fri, Mar 15th, 2024 to Sat, Apr 27th, 2024Time:
11:00 am
Description:
Familiar places, objects, images and scents can transport us to other times and versions of ourselves.
In this way, our memories are held by the land and our embodied experiences within it. But how does this memory translocate across geographies? For diasporic peoples, where do our memories belong? In embalmed funks, Michaela Bridgemohan draws on her inherited Afro-Caribbean cultural practices to explore this question, inviting viewers into this archive of intimate Black Canadian home life.
The objects of embalmed funks are representational, but their applications are abstracted: both artifacts of the everyday and relics of distant land/memory; a testament to Afro-Caribbean dispossession and a tribute to Syilx land; an act of cultural persistence and a spectre of what was once remembered.
“emblamed funks” will be on view in the Alternator’s Main Gallery from March 15 - April 27, 2024.
Venue:
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
Address:103 - 421 Cawston Ave , Kelowna, V1Y 6Z1
Cost:
FreeFor more info:
info@alternatorcentre.com
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is a non-profit organization dedicated to the development of our creative community. Since 1989, the Alternator has shown the work of emerging Canadian artists and helped develop the talents of local artists by providing a network of collaboration and sharing.
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