A new multimedia exhibit highlighting the importance of intergenerational relationships is coming to Steveston on Saturday.
Titled The Suitcase: Intergenerational Healing Through Traces of the Past, the exhibit will showcase the works of artists and co-curators Lyana Patrick and Ashli Akins.
Patrick is a member of the Stellat’en First Nation of the Carrier Nation in B.C. and Akins is a PhD candidate at UBC’s Interdisciplinary Studies Graduate Program. The two met through their shared love for intergenerational memory and using art to convey themes of collective knowledge and storytelling.
Patrick’s art was inspired by a suitcase given to her when her Gramma Aloo passed away; it contained materials that she had once used to make moccasins, gloves and hundreds of paper caribou cut-outs from her clan.
The exhibit consists of abstract collages of items from the suitcases along with photographs and cardboard cut-outs. It explores themes of intergenerational healing and reconciliation through the written word and captures the realities of a Carrier (Dakelh) woman’s daily life from 1948-1998.
The free exhibit will be open to the public every day at the Britannia Shipyards National Historic Site until Sunday, July 1 from noon to 4 p.m. There will also be an artist talk on Saturday, June 9 from 1:30 to 2:30 pm.
Visit www.richmond.ca/britannia or call 604-238-8050 for more details.
