Saturday Session

One Saturday each month, CAG invites a guest host to lead walkthroughs of our current exhibitions, offering their insights and response to the works on view. In November, we welcome Jake Kimble to speak on the work of Kablusiak.

Accessibility

ASL interpretation is available on request. Requests can be accommodated up to 5 days in advance. Please contact learning@cagvancouver.org to book or for more information.

RSVP

No advance registration required.

Biography

Jake Kimble is a multidisciplinary Chipewyan (Dënesųłıné) artist from Treaty 8 territory in the Northwest Territories, whose practice revolves around acts of self-care, self-repair and gender-based ideological refusal. Utilizing the camera to reclaim agency, Kimble asserts the importance of being able to tell one’s stories through and through. Kimble belongs to the Deninu Kųę́ First Nation and currently works on the stolen territory of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Most recently he attained a BFA in Photography from Emily Carr University of Art + Design while also holding a Degree in Acting from Vancouver Film School. Using the funny bone as a tool, Kimble excavates themes of existentialism, narcissism and the strange, offering an invitation to the audience to examine the absurdities that exist within the everyday so that they too may exhale, unclench and even chuckle in the spaces where laughter is often lost.