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OPENING RECEPTION | SHARP TEETH
September 12 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
ODD Gallery, Dënäkär Zho | KIAC
Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in territory, Dawson City, Yukon
OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, September 12nd at 7PM
About the Event
The ODD Gallery graciously invites you to come in our next group exhibition SHARP TEETH. Wine and snacks will be served along side 9 original artworks exploring gossip as a method of creating and breaking bonds of connection between female BIPOC artists, curated by Sanaa Humayun.
Curatorial Statement
Sharp Teeth investigates two related avenues of consideration: First – the use of whisper networks amongst racialized women as a form of relationship building, and the way feminine language is used to de-legitimize the work done in these spaces. Second – how art/ curatorial relationships can be re-imagined to embody some of the reciprocal care of these racialized spaces in order to develop a better framework for curation/ art making that breaks down the current systems of patriarchy/ White Supremacy.
This body of work satirizes the use of feminine visual aesthetics in pop culture, thinking about how feminine coded aesthetics often relegate feminine relationships to catty, gossipy, frivolous things, and how this package can be reclaimed for a body of work that is on the surface very bright, campy and mean, while also holding tender relationships. Ones that are rooted in friendship and care, ones that hold power despite being dismissed and devalued. Exploring how to bring these relationships out of the margins, this work leans into the frivolity, while also celebrating the deep and long lasting nature of these relationships, without giving away the secrets held within them.
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