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LET ME TAKE YOU THERE


Clovis-Alexandre Desvarieux, Miruna Drăgan, Emily Jan, Sara Khan, Hea R. Kim, Kosisochukwu Nnebe, Marigold Santos, Eve Tagny, Katherine Takpannie



Exhibition

Doris McCarthy Gallery, 2023
Photo documentation by Toni Hafkenscheid



The stories we tell about the world – how it came to be, what forces influence its course, and what our place is in its ecosystem – articulate who we are as much as who we could be. Passed on through many generations, these beliefs, legends or parables never belong to the past; their teachings continue their work in the present as they keep showing us how we can forge boundless paths forward, constantly rebuilding the world. Even if sometimes forgotten and lost, they linger in our inherited subconscious and may be recalled intuitively through our receptive bodies.




                       

Let me take you there
is an exhibition that brings together a group of Canadian artists whose practices draw upon ancestral histories and knowledge accessed through oral traditions, folklore, spiritual practices and embodied awareness, to envision possible futures. Inspired by cultural stories of creation, transformation and rebirth, as well as instinctively conceived rituals of empathy and repair, these artists propose new ways of being in community and a rethinking of social and natural systems, interpersonal relations, and beyond-human connections. Through their work, they extend an invitation to collectively dream the world anew.