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<h1 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Vessna Perunovich | Raven Davis</span><span style="font-size:18.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></h1>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Exhibitions continue to March 25</span></strong><o:p></o:p></h4>
<h4 style="margin-top:0cm;background:white"><strong><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">University of Waterloo Art Gallery</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A"><o:p></o:p></span></h4>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#2A2A2A">Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Friday 12-5 PM (vaccine passport required until March 1)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Exhibitions preview
<span style="color:#2A2A2A">on our <a href="https://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/">website</a><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif"><img border="0" width="800" height="533" style="width:8.3333in;height:5.552in" id="Picture_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.jpg@01D82810.FE05A440"></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">VESSNA PERUNOVICH<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Here. In Absence<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Here. In Absence
</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">is informed by the unsettling disposition of the world we live in and our collective experience over the last two years of pandemic. The works in the exhibition evoke themes of
isolation and division, expanding on concerns at the heart of Perunovich’s practice: boundaries, displacement and migration. Filmed in 2020 at the R.C. Harris Water Treatment Plant beside Lake Ontario,<i> I am Still. Traveling</i> depicts the artist walking
through the landscape dragging a long nautical Jacob’s ladder. The accompanying ethereal soundtrack underlines the artist’s Sisyphean task.
<i>Reverse Code</i> is informed by messaging codes such as Braille, an alphabet for the visually impaired; binary code used for computing and weaving; as well as ethical codes of conduct such as the United Nation’s Universal Declaration of Rights and Freedoms.
The ten Mylar screens strike a poetic balance between darkness and light, inviting viewers to contemplate the precarious role of language and communication in a world that increasingly feels confusing and isolating.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Both works are being exhibited in North America for the first time. The exhibition is generously supported by production grants from The Canada
Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">RAVEN DAVIS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif">Mmenwenmad | To Save for Later<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mmenwenmad | To Save for Later</span></i><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"> is a new body of work by Raven Davis rooted in acknowledging the physical body,
and lived experience as an incalculable, unwritten document. Davis’ monochromatic images capture the artist on the coastline of Mi’kma’ki, also known as the Atlantic coast. Through movement, sound, and the juxtaposition to land, body, Davis engages with a
common archiving two-drawer filing cabinet that is incapable of archiving the continuum of one's lived experience or intimate relationships with the land. Exploring transgenerational epigenetic matrilineal inheritance, Davis embodies a personal choreography
that expresses the impacts of colonialism, trauma, disability, transness, diaspora, and relationship to the land. In doing so, Davis draws on their previous body of works with monuments, creating temporary tributes honouring the water, land, sky world. Questioning,
what has been deemed “worthy” of saving, what has been lost, and what has been intentionally left out.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;vertical-align:baseline"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">This exhibition is an extension of the
<a href="https://www.cafka.org/">CAFKA.21</a> biennial, <em><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0cm">Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost</span></em>. CAFKA would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada
Council for the Arts.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">ADMIT EVERYONE</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
East Campus Hall, Room 1239<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 33575<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><a href="https://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/">Website</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">CONTACT</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black"><br>
Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator<br>
519.888.4567 ext. 46741<br>
<a href="mailto:ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca" target="_blank">ijurakic@uwaterloo.ca</a></span></p>
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Wednesday to Friday 12-5 pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">263 Phillip Street, Waterloo<br>
East Campus Hall (ECH) is located adjacent to Engineering 6 (E6)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Visitor Parking is available in Lot B beside Engineering 6 (E6) for a flat rate of $5<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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University of Waterloo Art Gallery<br>
200 University Avenue West<br>
Waterloo, ON, Canada N2L 3G1<br>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IMAGE 1: Vessna Perunovich</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, “Here. In Absence” (installation detail). Photo: Scott Lee.
<b>Description:</b> A black globe on a narrow display unit can be spied between a series of black Mylar banners. The banners are perforated using the Braille alphabet.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">IMAGE 2: Raven Davis</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">, “</span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">Mmenwenmad |
To Save for Later” </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black">(installation detail). Photo: Scott Lee.
<b>Description:</b> A person stands between a pair of rusty two-drawer filing cabinets mounted on top of extra tall plinths. Black and white photos are displayed on the adjacent walls.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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