SÉBASTIEN AUBIN, KIONA LIGTVOET, CHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDE, EMILY RIDDLE
sahkitok mistahi ᓴᐦᑭᑐᐠ ᒥᐢᑕᐦᐃ
Exhibition run: February 3, 2021 to April 10, 2021
Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre, 10124 96 Street, Edmonton AB
sahkitok mistahi explores love, kindness and generosity through language in times of displacement, isolation and loneliness. Using Language as a method to extend care to one another through messages and songs while investigating the intimate relationship between words and community. Each work offers the community a chance to join in dialogue with the artists, regardless of fluency of traditional languages. Audience members are encouraged to share notes of care, serving as a reminder to extend love across our community during the hard times we all face collectively.
Featuring works by: SÉBASTIEN AUBIN, KIONA LIGTVOET, CHEYENNE RAIN LEGRANDE and EMILY RIDDLE
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Exhibition run: February 3, 2021 to April 10, 2021
Gallery Hours: The gallery is closed to the public due to Alberta Health restrictions around COVID.
Accessibility notes: Ociciwan Contemporary Art Centre is barrier-free and is equipped with a lift to reach upper floors and lower floor gallery. Single stall and handicap washrooms available on every floor. Children are welcome! Change tables available in select washrooms.
ETS stops at 96 Street and Jasper (routes 2, 5, 88, 120, 308, 309), 97 Street and Jasper Avenue (3, 14, 100, 109, 161, 162). Paid city street parking and paid Impark lots available.
We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, and the Edmonton Arts Council.
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ARTIST TALK: FEBRUARY 20, 2021 - View the recording on our YouTube page
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ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Sébastien Aubin held the position of Indigenous Designer in Residence at the University of Manitoba School of Art, Winnipeg, where he produced a body of creative work and research that extends our understanding of design and graphic form. He has worked for some of the most prestigious graphic design studios in Canada and maintains a career as a freelance graphic artist. Aubin has designed publications for numerous artists, organizations, and art galleries in Canada, including Terrance Houle; KC Adams; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, Winnipeg; Vancouver Art Gallery; grunt gallery, Vancouver; Trinity Square Video, Toronto; Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Ontario; and Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba, Brandon. He is a founding member of the ITWÉCollective, which is dedicated to researching, creating, producing, and educating audiences about Indigenous digital culture. Aubin is also part of the AM Collective, which creates work that revolves around the imagination, sparking dialogue on subjects that relate to everyday life and emotions. He is a proud member of the Opaskwayak Cree Nation in Manitoba.
Kiona Ligtvoet (she/her), is a Cree/Métis artist from Michel First Nation, currently practicing in Amiskwaciwâskahikan. She primarily works in painting and printmaking, exploring stories of grief and tenderness. Her practice uses a non-linear telling of memories through narrative work as a form of personal archiving. It draws from feelings of loss, displacement, and enfranchisement within her own Indigenous identity, but also from moments of deep belly laughter. Partnered with her studio practice, Kiona has also been working alongside other artists in initiatives of community care, co-running Making Space, a visual-arts focused peer mentorship group decentering whiteness and prioritizing collaboration.
Emily Riddle is nehiyaw and a member of the Alexander First Nation in Treaty 6. She lives in amiskwaciwâskahikan. She is a writer, researcher, policy analyst, and library worker. Her first poetry chapbook will come out with Moon Jelly House in 2021. In 2020 she was shortlisted for the CBC Poetry Prize and played a lot of Mario Kart.
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Cheyenne Rain LeGrande is a Nehiyaw Isko artist, from Bigstone Cree Nation. She currently resides in Amiskwaciy Waskahikan also known as Edmonton, Alberta. Cheyenne graduated from Emily Carr University with her BFA in Visual Arts in 2019. She was selected as the winner of the B.C. prize for BMO 1st Art! emerging artist competition and has received the Moment Factory Award for her piece Nehiyaw Isko. Her work often explores the interconnection between history and the body. She works interdisciplinary; moving through installation, photography, video, sound, and performance art.