the currents that carry us
Confederation Centre Art Gallery, Charlottetown, PEI
September 23, 2023 — January 7, 2024
Alex Antle, Carley Mullally, Emily Shaw, Jordan Beaulieu, Morgan Possberg Denne, Natalie Michelle Goulet, Nicole Rampersaud, Somnia Lucent
Supported by RBC Foundation and OCAD University.
Photography: Gerald Beaulieu
Video: Roxanne Fernandes
Seeking out place is a personal endeavour. A physical action that compels us to not just recognize the land and spaces we inhabit, but the relationships we create and the memories we collect. What do I remember from this place and how do I tell its story? Is the memory from a time I can grasp? Is it from a land I know? What am I doing here? How has this place changed others? How has it changed me?
Considering place through the long-lived tradition of storytelling in Atlantic Canada allows for a rich transfer of knowledge about the known and unknown worlds. Here, place can be understood as a community percolating with stories about shared rural upbringings, endearing anecdotes from the shores, and peculiar island secrets. Meditating on place is how we hold on to the past, and storytelling is the current that carries us forward. Channelled through the artwork of eight emerging artists with origins or long-standing relationships to the provinces of Atlantic Canada, this exhibition pursues storytelling that isn’t rooted in written or spoken word. The artists take the expectations of the medium and they twist it—building new and experimental ways of storytelling which match the variable ways we remember place: through smell, touch, sound, and sight. the currents that carry us is a contemporary and interdisciplinary take on storytelling explored through such material manipulation. Ultimately, these stories converge around what the provinces share: the water that flows around this land and what it takes away, leaves us with, and teaches us.
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Morgan Possberg Denne, I've always felt that you were my child, 2023. Hand oil tanned Atlantic salmon skins, handmade, ochre pigment paint.
Somnia Lucent, The Trace of a Moving Point, 2023. Found fishing rope, UV reactive paint, UV lights.
Carley Mullally. Bit-by-Bit, 2023. Reclaimed rubber lobster claw bands, cotton rope. + 100 Years, 2020. Reclaimed rubber lobster claw bands, baling twine.
Carley Mullally, Irrational Repair, 2021 - present. Reclaimed bait bags, nylon twine.
Alex Antle, Njiknam Series, 2021-2022. + Sple’tk, 2021. Applique beadwork on moosehide.
Natalie Goulet, i slip into the blue light of winter (i am made and remade continually), 2022. Projection on cyanotype linen, 2:37.
Natalie Goulet, vatnsstígur/waterpath Series, 2023. Cyanolumen print.
Jordan Beaulieu, River Gathering, 2023. Mixed media in shadow box panels.
Emily Shaw, 2023. Ol' Darlin', cardboard, chicken wire, wool mixed media. Per Pound, 2023, tufted wool on monks cloth. Lobster cooler, 2023, cardboard, wool mixed media.
les courants qui nous emportent
Musée d'art du Centre de la Confédération, PEI
Septembre 23, 2023 — Janvier 7, 2024
Alex Antle, Carley Mullally, Emily Shaw, Jordan Beaulieu, Morgan Possberg Denne, Natalie Michelle Goulet, Nicole Rampersaud, Somnia Lucent
Soutenu par RBC Foundation and OCAD University.
Photographie: Gerald Beaulieu
Vidéo : Roxanne Fernandes
La recherche d’une place est une démarche personnelle. Un geste physique qui nous contraint à reconnaître non seulement la terre et les espaces que nous habitons, mais aussi les relations qui nous y créons et les souvenirs que nous accumulons. Quels sont les souvenirs que j’ai de cette place et comment les raconter? Ce souvenir date-t-il d’une époque que je peux identifier? Vientil d’un endroit que je connais? Qu’est-ce que je fais ici? Comment cette place a-t-elle changé les autres? Comment m’a-t-elle changé?