Group Exhibition — The Moon Shimmers as we Carry our Memories

The exhibition The Moon Shimmers as we Carry our Memories curated by Camille Larivée, will take pace from September 5 to November 15, 2006. The exhibition brought together artists asinnajaq, Jude Abu Zaineh, Mélanie O’Bomsawin, Shirley Moorhouse and Taryn Walker.

The Moon Shimmers as we Carry our Memories

Text by Camille Larivée
Curator

The Moon Shimmers as we Carry 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.