{"id":90468,"date":"2026-02-14T14:26:41","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T18:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/exhibitions\/to-move-across-the-land\/drac-art-actuel-drummondville\/"},"modified":"2026-05-22T10:06:55","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T14:06:55","slug":"drac-art-actuel-drummondville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/to-move-across-the-land\/drac-art-actuel-drummondville\/","title":{"rendered":"DRAC \u2013 Art actuel Drummondville"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;587269&#8243;]April 18 to June 21, 2026<br \/>\nOpening reception: April 18, 2026, from 1 pm to 5 pm<br \/>\n<em>Iaohontso\u2019kt\u00e1:tie \/ To Move Across the Land: Fashion and the Body<\/em><br \/>\nCurators: Armando Perla &amp; Michael Patten<br \/>\nLa Biennale d&#8217;art contemporain autochtone (BACA), 8th edition<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.drac.ca\/\">DRAC \u2013 Art actuel Drummondville<\/a><br \/>\n175 Rue Ringuet, Drummondville, QC, J2C 2P7<\/p>\n<p>Opening Performances: Aicha Bastien-N\u2019Diaye, Porfirio Guti\u00e9rrez.<\/p>\n<p>Isaac Te Awa, A\u00efcha Bastien-N\u2019Diaye, Feliciana Baustista, Jeanine Clarkin, Porfirio Guti\u00e9rrez, Arla Lucia, Meryl McMaster, Kent Monkman, Caroline Monnet, Omar Monroy, Melanie Monique Rose, Tekaronhiahkhwa Standup, Taalrumiq, Renati Waaka, ARIA XYX.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition brings together Indigenous and diasporic artists working across Turtle Island, Cemanahuac (Mesoamerica), and the Pacific, where practices of adornment, performance, image, and material transformation reflect the sovereign knowledge systems that originate them. This constellation moves through land, body, and relation, going beyond object-based display and refusing the divisions that separate art, fashion, and jewelry.<\/p>\n<p>Raised beadwork by Kahnaw\u00e0:ke artist Tekaronhiahkhwa Standup affirms beadwork as a living connection to culture and continuity, sustained through teaching and community. This grounding in material practice is found across multiple territories. Sculptural works by ARIA XYX, a Nahua mestizx artist from Kuskatan \/ El Salvador, confront the ongoing violence of the Salvadoran state against queer and trans existence, where the body is shaped through pressure and survival. In relation, photographic works by Renati Waaka, a M\u0101ori artist, articulate Takat\u0101pui utopia through clay and performance, offering another condition of Indigenous and queer life across the Pacific.<\/p>\n<p>Across his painting, Cree artist Kent Monkman challenges colonial narratives through Miss Chief Eagle Testickle\u2019s use of fashion and political satire, reversing the gaze and reworking art history from queer and Two-Spirit perspectives. Textile and land-based practices are carried through the work of Zapotec artist Porfirio Guti\u00e9rrez, whose weaving and natural dyes hold migration, memory, and lineage. These relations extend into fashion and adornment through artists such as Inuvialuk and Gwich\u2019in fashion designer Taalrumiq, whose designs carry storytelling and material knowledge across generations.<\/p>\n<p>The curatorial framing unfolds through the encounter of these works across territories, where distinct material languages, from beadwork to painting, from performance to textile, hold their own grounds while entering into relation without being reduced to one another. The exhibition aims to hold these works in conversation without collapsing their differences, while also focusing on their refusal of the colonial categories that have sought to contain them.<\/p>\n<p>The Biennale d\u2019art contemporain autochtone (BACA) would like to thank its partners the Canada Council for the Arts, the Government of Quebec, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Qu\u00e9bec, the Secr\u00e9tariat aux relations avec les Premi\u00e8res Nations et les Inuit, the Conseil des arts de Montr\u00e9al, Tourisme Montr\u00e9al, the Collection Desjardins and Creative New Zealand.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#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;587269&#8243;]April 18 to June 21, 2026 Opening reception: April 18, 2026, from 1 pm to 5 pm Iaohontso\u2019kt\u00e1:tie 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