Transits and Returns: Edith Amituanai, Christopher Ando, Natalie Ball, BC Collective with Louisa Afoa, Drew Kahu‘āina Broderick with Nāpali Aluli Souza, Hannah Bronte, Elisa Jane Carmichael, Bracken Hanuse Corlett, Mariquita Davis, Chantal Fraser, Maureen Gruben, Taloi Havini, Lisa Hilli, Carol McGregor, Marianne Nicolson, Ahilapalapa Rands, Debra Sparrow and T’uy’t’tanat Cease Wyss Vancouver Art Gallery September 28, 2019 – February 23, 2020
ost-it notes left by gallery-goers blanket a corner of the Vancouver Art Gallery’s third floor, enclosed by a modular office cubicle. One of them reads in a hesitant pencil scrawl: “I want to be the .” It’s part of an interactive component of an installation by Lisa Hilli called (2018) that makes visible the subtle acts of protest and resistance by First Nations (“women” in Tinata Tuna, the language of the Gunantuna) who have found themselves hemmed in by stultifying Eurocentric corporate work cultures. A series of voice-recorded testimonies and large-scale photographs of in poses of protection and solidarity exceed the boundaries of the cubicle, which by contrast stands as a homogenous container of in a white cube?
