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    I’ll be your Mirror: Stephanie Comilang, Erika DeFreitas, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Neil Goldberg, Milutin Gubash, Vivek Shraya

    Mar 10, 2019 3 minutes
    by Noa Bronstein

    Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, Ontario October 5, 2018–March 17, 2019

    Today, lineage, like everything else, has become commodifiable. The recent proliferation of self-service genetic testing kits, including 23andMe, MyHeritage and AncestryDNA have made clear that, for some, ancestry is purchasable and easily ascertained. The unspoken narrative of these testing companies is that identity is genetic inheritance and avoids the messiness of associations being born of emotional labour, relationship-building, kinship and togetherness.

    Beneath the surface of Crystal Mowry’s thoughtfully curated exhibition at the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery simmers the tensions at the core of

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