Artist: Camille Georgeson-Usher (Coast Salish-Sahtu Dene-Scottish, b.1990)
Year: 2018
Material: Vinyl Transfer
Purchase Information: Chancellor Richardson Memorial Fund, 2019
Location: West façade of Agnes Etherington Art Centre
through, in between oceans disrupts concrete walls with colourful, abstracted representations of beadwork, land and water, which enfold and fill the spaces in between portraits of the artist and her paternal grandmother. This site-specific intervention asks how Indigenous peoples can make subtle gestures to recognize each other’s bodies, while navigating through often unsafe urban territories. These gestures aren’t always bold; they can be the everyday gestures of people looking for a part of themselves in what the artist calls the “spaces in between.”