{"id":90485,"date":"2026-02-14T15:15:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T19:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/exhibitions\/to-move-across-the-land\/quai-5160-maison-de-la-culture-de-verdun\/"},"modified":"2026-05-15T12:01:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T16:01:45","slug":"quai-5160-maison-de-la-culture-de-verdun","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.baca.ca\/en\/exhibitions\/to-move-across-the-land\/quai-5160-maison-de-la-culture-de-verdun\/","title":{"rendered":"Quai 5160 \u2013 Maison de la culture de Verdun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;168190&#8243;]May 16 to July 12, 2026<br \/>\n<em> Iaohontso\u2019kt\u00e1:tie \/ To Move Across the Land: Making Otherwise: Process, Transmission, and Refusal<\/em><br \/>\nCurators: Armando Perla &amp; Michael Patten<br \/>\nLa Biennale d&#8217;art contemporain autochtone (BACA), 8th edition<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/montreal.ca\/lieux\/quai-5160-maison-de-la-culture-de-verdun\">Quai 5160 \u2013 Maison de la culture de Verdun<\/a><br \/>\n5160 Blvd. LaSalle, Verdun, QC, H4H 1N8<\/p>\n<p>Didine \u00c1ngel, Feeonaa Clifton, Federico Cuatlacuatl, Elvira Espejo, Didine \u00c1ngel, Feeonaa Clifton, Federico Cuatlacuatl, Elvira Espejo, Guillermo Jester &amp; Esperanza P\u00e9rez, Aroha Millar, Sam Ojeda, Israel Randell, Juan Carlos Recinos, Samuel Thomas, Renati Waaka.<\/p>\n<p>This exhibition traces how knowledge moves across different conditions: conflict, continuity, and transformation, situating these movements within the broader question of borders as colonial limits imposed on language, land, and bodies.<\/p>\n<p>Some works emerge from moments of pressure. Feeonaa Clifton activates roadwork signage to foreground te reo M\u0101ori and gagana S\u0101moa in public space, pushing against linguistic boundaries that regulate visibility. Suzanne Tamaki reanimates the statue of John Hamilton to expose the violence embedded in settler commemoration, unsettling the authority of colonial monuments. In Didine \u00c1ngel\u2019s performance, the body carries the weight of forced migration and racialized erasure, articulating movement as both necessity and survival across imposed borders. Making operates as intervention, a way to speak within conditions that attempt to silence or contain.<\/p>\n<p>Other works assert continuity. Elvira Espejo\u2019s weaving hands foreground knowledge transmitted through gesture and repetition, maintaining systems that exceed colonial divisions between past and present. Israel Randell\u2019s tapa cloth installation, produced collectively with M\u0101ori women in Aotearoa, emphasizes intergenerational labour and shared authorship that move across imposed separations of individual and collective practice. Simon Thomas\u2019s and Sam Ojeda\u2019s beadwork, alongside Esperanza L\u00f3pez\u2019s pleated garments, sustain techniques grounded in land, lineage, and adaptation, carrying this knowledge into contemporary practices that move across temporal and territorial boundaries.<\/p>\n<p>A third movement extends these practices forward. In the photographic collaboration of Aroha Millar and Renati Waaka, adornment becomes a site of transformation where ancestral knowledge crosses into new forms of embodiment. Federico Cuatlacuatl\u2019s Indigenous astronaut similarly projects presence into speculative space, shifting the temporal frame toward futures that exceed colonial limits.<\/p>\n<p>These works illustrate how making becomes a way of holding knowledge, moving across boundaries, and shaping what comes next.<\/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, 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, and Creative New Zealand.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column width=&#8221;1\/2&#8243;][vc_single_image media=&#8221;90628&#8243; media_width_percent=&#8221;100&#8243; uncode_shortcode_id=&#8221;198844&#8243;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row][vc_column 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