Paige Smith

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Open Studio is a monthly program for young visitors and families inspired by contemporary art practices and CAG’s current exhibitions. In July, we invite you to join us for an art-making workshop led by artist Paige Smith. 

Inspired by CAG’s current exhibition *Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill: M******, participants will learn to manipulate film celluloid using paint, ink and scratching to create moving-image paintings. Throughout this workshop, Paige will introduce cameraless filmmaking techniques exploring how to translate tactile gestures of paint brushes and pens into movement. Each participant will create a short segment, and the group's work will be stitched together and screened at the end of the workshop.

### RSVP
Registration for this event is free, but limited. A number of spots are reserved for families. RSVP to secure your place [here](https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/open-studio-between-canvas-and-celluloid-with-paige-smith-tickets-653160930927?utm-campaign=social&utm-content=attendeeshare&utm-medium=discovery&utm-term=listing&utm-source=cp&aff=ebdsshwebdesktop).

### Biography
Paige Smith (she/her) is an experimental filmmaker and visual artist whose artwork collapses distinctions like fiction/reality or nature/culture to fabulate new ontological understandings of ourselves and the places where we exist. She draws attention towards the characteristics, histories, and meanings of the places where her artwork is created and experienced, investigating how viewer perception is informed by its surrounding context. Smith attended Simon Fraser University to study film and visual art, and has recently exhibited with Cineworks Independent Filmmakers Society, Massy Arts Society, Audain Gallery, Vines Art Festival and VIVO Media Arts Centre.

### Accessibility
ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact [learning@cagvancouver.org](mailto:learning@cagvancouver.org) to book or for more information.

A portrait of Paige Smith. She is wearing a pink face mask and cream-coloured blazer with print triangles.

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Between Canvas and Celluloid with Paige Smith

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Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill

The sculptural work of Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill explores the fallacies embedded in colonial concepts of property, economy and family. Her works frequently frame Western systems of capitalism and control as both imposed and impermanent, emphasizing the endurance, power and radical potential of other surviving knowledges and economic practices. Often engaging the physical, historical or symbolic properties of the materials she works with, past projects have seen Hill variously use tobacco, found objects and deaccessioned museum artifacts to consider questions of labour, land, value, and reciprocity.

At the Contemporary Art Gallery, Hill presents *M******, a project that deepens the artist’s long-term inquiry into structures of kinship. Bringing together a suite of new works in sculpture, drawing and cameraless cinema, the exhibition sees Hill reflecting expansively on economies of parenting and reproductive labour. Harnessing references ranging from spores and parasites to Nadya “Octomom” Suleman, these works gesture toward an experience of motherhood that is multiplicitous, non-linear and visceral, both bound to and more than the limits and binaries frequently invoked by the word “Mother.”

#### Biography
Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill is an artist and writer. Her practice explores the history of found materials to enquire into concepts of land, property, and economy. Recent exhibitions include the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the 59th Venice Biennale; Le Magasin CNAC, Grenoble; the Vancouver Art Gallery; the College Art Galleries at the University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon; and Gallery TPW, Toronto. She is a member of BUSH gallery, an Indigenous artist collective that seeks to challenge Eurocentric art models, and to centre the land and Indigenous epistemologies. Hill is Cree and English, with maternal roots in the Michel Band and Papaschase. She lives on the unceded territories of the Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, xʷməθkʷəy̓əm and səlilwətaɬ Nations.


CAG Summer 2023 Program Guide - Web.pdf

CAG - Gabe Hill - Exhibition Guide - Regular Print - Web.pdf

CAG - Gabe Hill - Exhibition Guide - Large Print - Web.pdf

Several strips of hand-treated pint film with holes like cigarette burns are displayed on a white surface.

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Two wire sculptures that stand slanted, with mobiles build into the top. Strawberries and pictures cut out from magazines hang from the wires.

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Paper cutouts and a strawberries hang from thin metal wires.

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Paper cutouts and a strawberry hang from thin metal wires.

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Paper cutouts, including a woman's face, hang from a latice of thin metal wires, with clear plastic doilies threaded around several joints.

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Paper cutouts hang from thin metal wires, most prominently a photo of a woman's face.

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Framed collage with a smeared pink background and small images cut out from magazines arranged in swirls.

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Paper cutouts hang from thin metal wires in the foreground, with a framed pink collage in the background.

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A framed collage with a pink background and drawn lines concentrically repeating edges of the collage into the centre of the image.

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Three framed pink collages on a white wall.

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A framed collage with a pink background with small burn holes running up and down collage in columns.

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Two framed pink collages on a white wall perpendicular to a doorway leading into a dark room with a sculpture made of stacked chairs supporting a film projector visible.

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A sculpture made of stacked chairs supporting a film projector. A pink t-shirt lines the top chair that the projector sits on, and runnings shoes support the bottom chair.

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Four running shoes supporting at its corners a stack of chairs.

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Two projections on a dark wall. The left projection, which is bigger than the right one, features a pink background with red outlined circle. The right projection features black vertical lines running from the bottom to top of the frame.

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A sculpture made of stacked chairs supporting a film projector in a dark room facing two projections on a dark wall.

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