THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN’S MAIN CAMPUS IS SITUATED ON TREATY 6 TERRITORY AND THE HOMELAND OF THE MÉTIS.
By Laura Alford October 5, 2011
Saskatoon art lovers have plenty to see in two new exhibitions that opened this past week. Wing Yee Tong’s show Homework is showing at the Snelgrove, and Vancouver-based artist Jayce Salloum’s history of the present is at the Mendel.
Obvious headlines aside, both exhibitions present the artist as archivist, collector and hoarder of the objects, images, conversations and even recipes that are the material residue of lived experience. In both exhibits, the gallery space and the artist’s treatment transform our relationship to these objects.