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Contemporary Art Gallery

555 Nelson Street
Vancouver, Canada
Closed for installation
until October 18, 2024

Admission always free
ArchiveEvent
2 Apr 17·2:00 PM

Artist Talk

Greg Staats

Installation image of various works in a gallery. Coloured photographs of various landscapes, texts, and some objects are sparsely placed on the wall.

Greg Staats, Untitled (objects of reciprocal thinking) (installation view), 2014. Photo: SITE Photography

Greg Staats will discuss his multidisciplinary practice and the works on display for Song of the Open Road.

Toronto-based artist Greg Staats’ (Kanien’kehá:ka, b. Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory) works combine language, mnemonics and the natural world as an ongoing process of conceptualizing a Haudenosaunee restorative aesthetic to define the multiplicity of relationships with trauma and renewal. For Song of the Open Road Staats’ installation untitled (objects of reciprocal thinking) (2014) brings together images and objects from personal and community archives that offer intellectual and aesthetic interpretation of body and ceremony.