A Bag Full of Acorns, A Bag Full of Ashes | Dialectics of Fugitivity
April 7, 2023 to May 20, 2023.
Gallery Gachet / 9 W Hastings St.
Gallery Hours: Tue – Sat / 12pm – 6pm.
A Bag Full of Acorns, A Bag Full of Ashes
Long Xi Vlessing
In an increasingly public social milieu, photographs realize the voyeuristic possibility of being seen having a private moment in a public world. Suspending both fleeting strangers and near acquaintances in jarring light and colour, Vlessing's photographs depict abrupt subjects in revelatory moments— in the throes of primal fear, contending with social upheaval, or perhaps in mere moments of contemplation, awkwardness, or acorn-collecting.
Dialectics of Fugitivity
Abdulwasiu Salimat and Simone Chnarakis
Emerging from a conceptual framework that centres bell hook's postulations of the oppositional gaze and Tina Campt's hypothesis on the registers of refusal in the image, artists Abdulwasiu Salimat and Simone Chnarakis invoke dialogue on the current and future state of Blackness from the perspectives of bodies living in a world haunted by the effects of colonization.
