Did It Hurt? Exhibition Announcement

Video still courtesy of Dana Justine Belcourt

🎬✨New Media Gallery Exhibition Announcement!✨🎬

Ociciwan has been hosting a series of films made by Indigenous filmmakers from across Turtle Island throughout 2024 in our New Media Gallery. This initiative is generously supported through the Edmonton Art Councils Connections and Exchanges Initiatives Grant. Through the Connections & Exchanges Initiatives program, the Edmonton Arts Council provides project and initiative funding to organizations to activate the City of Edmonton’s 10-year plan, Connections & Exchanges.

Featuring video work by Dana Justine Belcourt. Did It Hurt? shares a curatorial theme of care and tattooing with our main space exhibition, Take Care.

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Exhibition Run: September 28th- December 7th

Opening Reception: September 28th 5- 8PM

Gallery Hours: Wednesday- Saturdays, 12- 5PM

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There are so many layers of care that go into giving or getting a tattoo. There’s care in the relationship between artist and the receiver, for the client’s wellbeing, for the artist’s self, their practice, the culture, and of course the care the client takes to heal their tattoo.

Did it hurt? by Dana Justine Belcourt, navigates self-perception, care, and grief. Told through a series of diaristic vignettes, the video captures fleeting, everyday moments, and presents them as worthy of attention, care, and celebration.

These moments focus on both landscape and body, with special attention to the west coast, hands, tattoos, and the blemishes of themselves and others as they illustrate heartache, tenderness, and healing from grief.