This exhibition runs May 6 - July 19, 2023 at Dunlop Art Gallery (Sherwood Village Branch)
“My father was a survivor of the Lebret (Qu’Appelle) Indian Industrial Residential School. Unfortunately, he did not survive the accumulated effects of intergenerational trauma. We lost our dear father in 1978, he was 39 years old, I was seventeen.” - Kevin McKenzie
Edge of Seventeen collects and preserves the memories and knowledge McKenzie’s father instilled in Kevin as a child, translating his father’s teachings and passion for hockey into a contemporary Indigenous experience. The exhibition serves as a portal, linking repressed childhood memories of McKenzie’s father to his current state of Indigenous regeneration and resistance to colonial assimilation. Edge of Seventeen reflects a personal transformation, through a process of reconstructing Indigenous identity and masculinity.
AGE GROUP: | Adults |
EVENT TYPE: | Dunlop Art Gallery Exhibitions |
TAGS: | Past | Indigenous | Dunlop Art Gallery | Art |
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