Join Ryan Rice & Lisa Deanne Smith for an in-depth tour of Jordan Bennett x2: Souvenir and pi'tawita'iek: we go up river.
Please meet us at Butterfield Park. The tour begins at Butterfield Park, 100 McCaul Street and continues to Onsite Gallery.
Register here for tickets: https://bit.ly/3Czzl7l
Jordan Bennett’s solo exhibition Souvenir draws upon his inspired intentions to visit, activate and respond to the innovative heritage embedded, woven and veiled in the richness of Mi’kmaq material culture and design. His interdisciplinary and intuitive approach grants new vitality to overlooked cultural expressions that carry elaborate Mi’kmaq cosmologies interpreted through customary geometric motifs embellished in a highly valued era of porcupine quillwork and basketry souvenir trade commodities that was thriving in the 19th century. The exhibition brings together Bennett’s newly designed site-specific work, museum collection loans, and installation to celebrate the vitality and influence of Indigenous aesthetic as contemporary practice.
Image Credit: Jordan Bennett, Kjipuktuk, 2018, acrylic on birch panel, 132 cm x 75 cm. Back Chair Panel (Mi'kmaq artist and date unknown) porcupine quills, birchbark, root, 26 cm x 41 cm. On loan from The Nova Scotia Museum (1958.37.B). Installation view. Photo by Yuula Benivolski
Image Credit: Jordan Bennett, pi'tawita'iek: we go up river, detail of upcoming mural at the southside of 100 McCaul St., OCAD University, 2022