Group Exhibition — The Moon Shimmers as we Carry Along our Memories

The exhibition The Moon Shimmers as we Carry Along our Memories curated by Camille Larivée, is taking place from September 12 to November 15, 2026. It brings together the works of artists asinnajaq, Jude Abu Zaineh, Mélanie O’Bomsawin, Shirley Moorhouse and Taryn Walker.

The Moon Shimmers as we Carry Along our Memories

Text by Camille Larivée
Curator

The Moon Shimmers as we Carry Along our Memories brings together the work of Indigenous artists Asinnajaq (Inuk), Mélanie O'Bomsawin (W8banaki), Shirley Moorhouse (Inuk), and Taryn Walker (Nlaka'pamux and Syilx), as well as Canadian-Palestinian artist Jude Abu Zaineh. The autumn equinox, which coincides with the exhibition’s presentation, and the revisited cyclical nature of time are at the heart of this project. Each work invites the public to contemplate different temporalities of nature that have been eradicated by colonial extractivism through various natural materials that undergo transformation: beeswax, rocks, beads, fabrics, ᖁᓪᓕᖅ (qulliq), plant and food-based doughs, and traditional Indigenous objects. This exhibition honors collective memories and celebrates our multifaceted relationships with nature.

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Photo credits: dedans dehors studio

Artists featured in this exhibition

asinnajaq

asinnajaq is from Inukjuak, Nunavik and lives in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montreal. Their work includes photography, filmmaking, writing and curating. asinnajaq wrote and directed Three Thousand (2017) a short documentary, and co-curated Isuma’s show in the ‘Canadian’ pavilion at the 58th Venice. As a film programmer, they are responsible for Flaherty NYC 2022 fall program Let’s All Be Lichen and the Whitney Biennial 2024 program The Land Wants You. asinnajaq was long listed for the Sobey Art Award, and was the recipient of the New Generation Photography Award (2024) and the Pierre-Ayot Award (2025). In their work, asinnajaq is interested in sharing tools for navigating life’s journey. 

Mélanie O’Bomsawin

A mother, a daughter and a granddaughter, Mélanie O’Bomsawin is also a film editor, videographer, and new media artist. Born to one Abenaki parent and one Québécois parent, she works with video in all its forms to explore her connections to those who came before her and those who will follow. Her practice focuses on questions of identity, tradition, memory, and the transmission of knowledge through our relationships. Interested in new technologies, she constantly seeks out new ways to tell stories. She creates for both past and future generations. Mélanie is a member of the Abenaki community of Odanak and currently lives in Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyaang/Montreal.

Shirley Moorhouse

Shirley Moorhouse (b. Happy Valley-Goose Bay, Nunatsiavut) is an artist based in Nitassinan/Labrador. Her work has been featured in exhibitions such as the 2023 Bonavista Biennale (Bonavista Peninsula, NL), INUA: Inuit Nunangat Ungammmuaktut Atautikkut (Inuit Moving Forward Together), (Qaumajuq/Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2020); and SakKijâjuk: Art and Craft from Nunatsiavut (2017), a nationally traveling exhibition. Shirley Moorhouse’s work is held in public collections such as The Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, Bowdoin College (Brunswick, ME); Indigenous Art Collection, Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada (Gatineau, QC); the Government of Newfoundland and Labrador Collection; and Sir Wilfred Grenfell Art Collection (Corner Brook, NL). In 2025, Shirley Moorhouse was longlisted for the Sobey Art Award, Circumpolar region. 

Taryn Walker

Taryn Walker (they/she)  is an award-winning queer, interdisciplinary mixed-Indigenous artist of Nlaka'pamux, Syilx, and European ancestry currently based in the unceded territories of the xwməθkwəy ̓ əm, Skwxwú7mesh, and Səl ̓ ílwətaɬ Nations. Their work explores themes of futurity, spiraling time, utopia, tenderness, playfulness, healing, and cycles of life and death through drawing, printmaking, installation, video, and sound.  In 2018, they graduated from the University of Victoria's BFA program with a Major in Visual Arts and a Minor in Art History & Visual Studies. In December 2024, they completed their MFA at Simon Fraser University in Interdisciplinary Contemporary Arts. Taryn Walker’s work has been presented in spaces, residencies, and events across Canada, the United States, and beyond. Notable recent achievements include being long-listed for the Philip B. Lind Emerging Artist Prize, presented by the Polygon Gallery (2025), and a research residency at the University of Tennessee Knoxville (UTK), which included mentoring with Koichi Yamamoto (2024). 

Jude Abu Zaineh

Jude Abu Zaineh is a Palestinian-Canadian interdisciplinary artist-curator working across art, food, science, and technology studies. Her work develops counter-archive practices and investigates themes of culture, displacement, storytelling, diaspora, and belonging, through de-colonial and feminist perspectives. She examines ideals of home and community influenced by her childhood and upbringing in Southwest Asia. Jude Abu Zaineh has presented her work around the world, and is the recipient of several awards including the 2020 William and Meredith Saunderson Prizes for Emerging Artists, was longlisted for the 2026 Sobey Art Award, and was one of the first selected artists to participate in a collaborative residency with the Ontario Science Centre and MOCA Toronto (Canada).