When Either But Not Both Are True / Those at the Great River-Mouth [electronic resource].

Blackwood Gallery 2018

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Examining nature symbolism, territorial resistance, and solidarity economies connected to land and water, two solo exhibitions by women artists trace the contours of embodiment and the agency of more-than-human worlds. Calgary-based Miruna Dragan’s When Either But Not Both Are True explores the limits of human comprehension alongside material manifestations of the unknown, the underground, and the under-worldly. Exploring dreaming, divination, energy economies, and logic systems, the project engages human relationships with the natural world in order to question our interactions with the physical spaces we inhabit. Those at the Great River-Mouth is based on Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo’s investigation of hydroelectric sites across Latin America, whose processes of land expropriation and environmental licensing have been marked by unprecedented environmental disasters and profound Indigenous resistance. Picturing water’s living and life-giving capacities, Caycedo’s work affirms nature’s vibrancy beyond the narrow resource-driven logics of extractivism.
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Christine Shaw
Miruna Dragan
Carolina Caycedo
Natasha Chaykowski
Macarena Gómez-Barris
Matthew Walker
Lauren Regier
Matthew Hoffman