Laid Over To Cover
dal 15/1/2010 al 13/3/2010
Segnalato da
15/1/2010
Laid Over To Cover
Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver
Weaving and Photography in the Salishan Landscape
Weaving and Photography in the Salishan Landscape. Throughout its gradual advance across Canada in the 1880s, the Canadian Pacific Railway (C.P.R.) had financially assisted in the creation of detailed inventories of documentary photography to both publicize its awe-inspiring transcontinental line and to further assert its ambitious involvement within a wider scheme of exploration and development. Photographic documentation made between the Rocky Mountains and the Pacific Ocean (within the Interior and Coast Salish culture regions of British Columbia) created a wide-ranging inventory of picturesque mountain scenery and sublime territories and terrains; and in the process of their documentary work, pioneering field photographers recorded continuously expanding points of contact between aboriginal inhabitants and colonial intruders. The exhibition presents a culturally important group of traditional and functional artifacts: 19th and 20th century wool and cedar weavings produced within a network of inter-related and over-lapping oral traditions. This legacy is expanded in the show and brought into the present with the work of contemporary practitioners Keith Nahanee (Squamish Nation), and Melvin Williams (Lil'wat Nation). Co-presented by Presentation House Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff. Curated by David Bellman and Meirion Cynog Evans.