Melissa Johns | hand-me-downs Exhibition

Fri Jun 07 2024 at 05:00 pm to Sat Jul 20 2024 at 05:00 pm UTC-05:00

Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art | Winnipeg

Urban Shaman
Publisher/HostUrban Shaman

Melissa Johns | hand-me-downs

June 7 - July 20 2024


Opening reception: Friday June 7th from 5-9 pm

Artist Talk and Livestream: Saturday June 8th from 1-2 pm

Workshop: Thursday June 6th from 3:30-7:30pm


There is a beauty in the spaces we have carved out for ourselves

our longing for what might have been

and our imaginings of possible futures.


Situated in storywork material culture and new media hand-me-downs engages the past in conversation by reawakening forgotten narratives and reinterpreting inherited legacies. In a process-based undertaking of translation preservation and archival the nostalgic and familiar are transformed in praxis with VR video digital painting and beadwork.


Through material exploration of possessions photos and textiles passed across generations memories are carried with love through digital reconstruction. Honouring that which is lost and remembered situates home and identity in the wake of displacement.


As a response to the lasting impacts of the residential school system this dialogical practice communes with the past for the dual purposes of critical intervention and cultural bridging. Beyond its service to family hand-me-downs seeks to engage others through evocation and immersion.


This work is for those who grapple with displacement celebrating lived experiences situated between cultures. This is who we are as progressive generations of cultural embodiment and it will be up to us to decide who we want to be.


And so the work continues.


 

Melissa Johns b. 1993

Melissa Johns is a new media artist and educator from a mixed Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk Turtle Clan) and French Canadian background born and based in Tkaronto. Melissa's visual practice manifests at the convergence of contemporary media using interdisciplinary methods to collect preserve and transform fragments of the stories around her. Her practice is process-heavy meticulously translating sentimental objects and family histories into new digital forms. Specializing in virtual reality installations digital painting and video art Melissa’s work centers on investigating the narrative potential of these emergent channels.

Event Venue

Urban Shaman Contemporary Aboriginal Art, 203-290 McDermot Avenue, Winnipeg, Canada

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