Rhizoming Heart
was a theme-specific work created for Powerhouse: Who We Are Now, an exhibition of self-portraits by founding members (1973) of Powerhouse Gallery, Canada's first gallery dedicated to exclusively showing the work of women artists in a women-centred experience. When Pat Walsh approached me about curating this exhibition, I agreed to collaborate in the spirit that brought us together almost thirty years before. In my curator’s statement I wrote: A time and space to refine and expand into the present our individual and collective memories of Powerhouse Gallery provides a measure of motivation in undertaking this project. Naming, as an intellectual relationship to the world, reflects the creative process itself as we map the present onto the past. The pleasure of glancing back over the distance travelled equals the acknowledgement of our early and continuing collective contribution to the construction of an artist-run-centre network and to Canadian culture. Bringing together artists who have not met for many years, this exhibition forwards art practice and personal history as integral to definitions of self, employing expanded notions of self-portraiture.click here to download the Invitation (PDF)
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