a memory with you: of holding, of carrying together

April 4 – June 1, 2024
Exhibition

About the Program

“Daughter, I made these works for you, my future ancestor. I created this document, these pieces, this Michif self-archive for you. So you wouldn’t have to search my name, dig deep for my stories…”

Inspired by her grandpa’s hunting shack and her daughter’s ancestral home lands, Maria-Margaretta Cabana Boucher reaches for the space between worlds in her solo exhibition, a memory of you: of holding, of carrying together. In this exhibition, she extrapolates, expands, and focuses in on beaded works and structures as a way of building forward with new archives of work, mindful of the gaps and omissions that she would like to not be repeated when passing her lineage to her own daughter. Running counter to a long history of assigned anonymity to Michif women in the archive, she is using the space of this exhibition to reclaim agency and position her beading practice as resistance to the erosion of cultural memory.

Artist

Maria-Margaretta Cabana Boucher

Curator

Whess Harman

Identifier

2024.0404 AME

Collection

grunt gallery Programming Archive

Location

grunt gallery (second location)
116-350 E. 2nd Ave, Vancouver, BC, Canada, V5T 4R8
Unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ/selilwitulh (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations

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