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[Ivan Jurakic]

Vessna Perunovich | Raven Davis
Exhibitions continue to March 25
University of Waterloo Art Gallery
Gallery Hours: Wednesday to Friday 12-5 PM (vaccine passport required until March 1)

Exhibitions preview on our website<https://uwag.uwaterloo.ca/>

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VESSNA PERUNOVICH
Here. In Absence

Here. In Absence 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 am Still. Traveling depicts the artist walking through the landscape dragging a long nautical Jacob’s ladder. The accompanying ethereal soundtrack underlines the artist’s Sisyphean task. Reverse Code 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.

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.

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RAVEN DAVIS
Mmenwenmad | To Save for Later

Mmenwenmad | To Save for Later 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.



This exhibition is an extension of the CAFKA.21<https://www.cafka.org/> biennial, Everything Not Saved Will Be Lost. CAFKA would like to acknowledge the generous support of the Canada Council for the Arts.


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Ivan Jurakic, Director/Curator
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IMAGE 1: Vessna Perunovich, “Here. In Absence” (installation detail). Photo: Scott Lee. Description: 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.

IMAGE 2: Raven Davis, “Mmenwenmad | To Save for Later” (installation detail). Photo: Scott Lee. Description: 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.
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