ARTISTS
Storytelling and Stewardship
Western Front is pleased to present a group exhibition, public programs, and artist residencies that consider place-based knowing and environmental stewardship through the work of BC-based artists鈥擩aime Adams, Siku Allooloo, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, and Jay Pahre. Each artist employs narrative methods to presence ancestors, plants, and animals, as an instructive way of being in relationship with the worlds we live in and are responsible for. Whether Indigenous, settler, or migrant Storytelling and Stewardship asks how we relate to land and place as a host, traveler, or guest.
Jaime Adam鈥檚 contribution is drawn from her series The Ecological Influence of Allelopathy (2021-ongoing) of analog photographs documenting Maplewood Flats Conservation Area. Located on the unceded and ancestral lands of the s蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation, it is the largest remaining tidal mudflat on the North Shore. Adams undertakes habitat restoration here to remediate invasive plants and toxins introduced through colonization and industry. Using weeds removed from the site, Adam鈥檚 extracts plant-based developers to process her black and white films and soups her colour negatives in sea and fresh water collected from Maplewood Flats. Heavy metals in the water interact visibly with the film emulsion, as the site further contributes to the final landscape image.
Using a similar process, Siku Allooloo鈥檚 experimental documentary Spirit Emulsion (2022), was filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals collected from Denendeh (Northwest Territories) where she was born and raised, and the Coast Salish territories where the film was made. Through this, Allooloo evokes her culture and the legacy of her late mother, Haitian/Ta铆no activist Marie-H茅l猫ne Laraque, by connecting earth to cosmos, as flowers portray family love and ancestral sovereignty extending into the future. The film also serves as 鈥渁n opening prayer鈥� for a feature-length documentary that Allooloo will continue to develop in residence.
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Western Front is pleased to present a group exhibition, public programs, and artist residencies that consider place-based knowing and environmental stewardship through the work of BC-based artists鈥擩aime Adams, Siku Allooloo, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, and Jay Pahre. Each artist employs narrative methods to presence ancestors, plants, and animals, as an instructive way of being in relationship with the worlds we live in and are responsible for. Whether Indigenous, settler, or migrant Storytelling and Stewardship asks how we relate to land and place as a host, traveler, or guest.
Jaime Adam鈥檚 contribution is drawn from her series The Ecological Influence of Allelopathy (2021-ongoing) of analog photographs documenting Maplewood Flats Conservation Area. Located on the unceded and ancestral lands of the s蓹l虛铆lw蓹ta蕯涩 (Tsleil-Waututh) Nation, it is the largest remaining tidal mudflat on the North Shore. Adams undertakes habitat restoration here to remediate invasive plants and toxins introduced through colonization and industry. Using weeds removed from the site, Adam鈥檚 extracts plant-based developers to process her black and white films and soups her colour negatives in sea and fresh water collected from Maplewood Flats. Heavy metals in the water interact visibly with the film emulsion, as the site further contributes to the final landscape image.
Using a similar process, Siku Allooloo鈥檚 experimental documentary Spirit Emulsion (2022), was filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals collected from Denendeh (Northwest Territories) where she was born and raised, and the Coast Salish territories where the film was made. Through this, Allooloo evokes her culture and the legacy of her late mother, Haitian/Ta铆no activist Marie-H茅l猫ne Laraque, by connecting earth to cosmos, as flowers portray family love and ancestral sovereignty extending into the future. The film also serves as 鈥渁n opening prayer鈥� for a feature-length documentary that Allooloo will continue to develop in residence.
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