Kapwani Kiwanga: Clearing
January 10 to March 11, 2018
Clearing features the work of internationally-acclaimed visual artist Kapwani Kiwanga. Born in Hamilton and raised in Brantford, Kiwanga attended Glenhyrst Art Gallery art camps from an early age. The City of Brantford and Glenhyrst Art Gallery of Brant is situated within the Haldimand Tract and thus the traditional territories of the Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee peoples, who have longstanding relationships to the area. In this exhibition, she returns to the site of her earliest arts education to consider her experience with the Gallery and the region’s unfolding relationship with colonialism, Indigenous populations, and the land. In effect, Kiwanga questions how art has been instrumental in the appropriation of the land and the communities that reside on it.
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