{"id":90136,"date":"2025-02-20T12:07:07","date_gmt":"2025-02-20T16:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/galerie-shekon\/summer-harmony-twenish-my-body-is-the-land\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T15:42:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T19:42:10","slug":"summer-harmony-twenish-my-body-is-the-land","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/en\/galerie-shekon\/summer-harmony-twenish-my-body-is-the-land\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer-Harmony Twenish : My Body is the Land"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;226651&#8243;]March 15 &#8211; April 19, 2025<br \/>\nOpening reception: Saturday, March 15, 2025, 2 pm to 5 pm<br \/>\nSummer-Harmony Twenish: <em>My Body is the Land <\/em><br \/>\nCurator : Amanda Lickers<\/p>\n<p>Galerie Sh\u00e9:kon<br \/>\n5826, rue St-Hubert, 2nd floor<br \/>\nTiohti\u00e0:ke \/ Mooniyang \/ Montr\u00e9al (QC) H2S 2L7<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition will be featured as part of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsouterrain.com\/\">Art Souterrain<\/a>\u2019s urban satellite route.<\/p>\n<p><em>My Body is the Land<\/em> is the first solo exhibition by Summer-Harmony Twenish at Sh\u00e9:Kon Gallery, managed by the Contemporary Native Art Biennale (BACA). Curated by Amanda Lickers, this exhibition will be featured as part of Art Souterrain&#8217;s urban satellite route. Summer&#8217;s work invites the public to reflect on the theme of habitat, exploring notions of belonging and territory while delving into the connection between land and body sovereignty. The exhibition showcases a visually dynamic body of work that reflects on the complex spectrum of relationality through alluring digital illustration and animation.<\/p>\n<p>Summer&#8217;s work engages in queer Indigenous world-building by reflecting on the liminal, the raw, and the ordinary to create an at one sentimental, assertive and empowering body of work. This exhibition emphasizes the interdependence between Indigenous peoples&#8217; self-determination over their territory and autonomy over their bodies. It employs fierce imagery encoded in vibrant color stories that evoke nostalgia for sunsets back home, flooding the gallery with saturated hues of juicy pinks, periwinkle blues, and ethereal violets. With a distinctive and often tongue-in-cheek edge, Summer&#8217;s work embodies refusal and resistance to cis-heteropatriarchal normativities and settler narratives that depict the land as an unfeeling object. Grounded in Algonquin sensibilities and visual storytelling, Summer incorporates humor, land-based motifs, and autoethnographic interpretations to create a superlunary landscape.<\/p>\n<p>Summer-Harmony Twenish (she\/they) is a queer Algonquin Anishinabe artist from Kitigan Zibi, QC. Though Summer works primarily as a digital illustrator, their interests span mediums, ranging everywhere from digital animation to painting to beadwork and other textile work. Summer&#8217;s praxis is rooted in love for their homeland, family stories, and fierce anti-colonial feminist thought. Their work holds space for conversations about mental health, body positivity, queerness, and the importance of challenging settler-colonial expectations in so-called &#8220;Canada&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Iako\u2019tsi:rareh Amanda Lickers (Seneca, Six Nations of the Grand River) is an emerging curator and the 2023-2025 Indigenous Land Restitution Research-Creation Fellow at the Canadian Centre for Architecture. Amanda has worked with museologists, gallery directors, architects, archaeologists and designers to implement Indigenous design principles and decolonize contemporary approaches engaging the built environment &#8211; on stolen lands.<\/p>\n<p>Galerie She:kon, which means \u201chello\u201d in Kanien\u2019k\u00e9h\u00e0, focuses on showcasing solo exhibitions by up-and-coming Indigenous artists and curators.<\/p>\n<p>Acknowledgements<\/p>\n<p>The Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA) would like to thank the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec (CALQ) for their financial support.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;90132&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;182632&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;226651&#8243;]March 15 &#8211; April 19, 2025 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