When Either But Not Both Are True / Those at the Great River-Mouth
<p>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 <em>When Either But Not Both Are True</em> 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. <em>Those at the Great River-Mouth</em> 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.</p>
Curator: Christine Shaw
Artists: Miruna Dragan, Carolina Caycedo
Contributors: Natasha Chaykowski, Macarena Gómez-Barris
Installation Technician: Matthew Walker, Lauren Regier
Designer: Matthew Hoffman
Part of: The Blackwood