Blood Ties co-curated by Genevieve Wallen & Eve Tagny
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February 17 – March 24, 2017
Opening Reception: Friday, February 17,
7-10pm
Artists Involved:
Omar Badrin, Aditi Ohri, Shahir Omar-Qrishnaswamy,
Fallon Simard, Eve Tagny
Co-curated by Geneviève Wallen and Eve Tagny
Image: Fallon Simard, Womb (video still)
Blood Ties explores the spiritual and material bonds that shape familial histories and intimacies. By presenting narratives of individuals from transnational and translocal families, this exhibition demonstrates the ways in which multi-local identities embody a web of geographical encounters and cultural memories. The selected artworks demonstrate how one’s familial identity is subjected to social and spatial negotiations underlining periods of longing, absence and change. This exhibition examines contemporary family “units” as a threshold allowing conversations about one’s relationship to their immediate landscape, spaces connected to ancestral memories, and cultural exchanges mapping colonial legacies
Blood Ties is part of Myseum Intersections 2017, an annual festival of exhibits exploring different perspectives on the city’s natural, cultural, and historical diversity.