Mixed Emotions
May 22 – June 9, 1990
Exhibition
About the Program
Diana Kemble's Mixed Emotions, based on the Haida legend Bears and the Berry Picker, is an oil stick mural on Arches paper and is 17 feet long by 42 inches. In this work, as in the legend, the powerful resonance of the oral is symbolized by the bear's double identity of nurturer and destroyer. By breaking up sections of the mural and returning them upside down into the piece, she disregards a linear narrative of the story and instead focuses on the feelings and emotion of surrender. The work is sensual and explores eroticism through animal and human forms. In addition to the mural, the artist will perform the sound image work Tracking, a further exploration of these themes.Artist
Diana KembleIdentifier
1990.0522 MIXCollection
grunt gallery Programming ArchiveLocation
grunt gallery (first location)209 E. 6th Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 1J8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations