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There Once Was a Girl Named Hester, and Other Damaged Kids
With this exhibition, artist Amitai Ben explores the upbringing of his Jewish Dutch mother, Hester Trompetter, who was orphaned as a young girl and lived through the traumatic experiences of the Second World War. After ecoming a father himself and following his kids’ coming to age awoke in him the need to explore matters of vulnerability, dependency, courage and belonging. Amitai creates a world where the individual is surrounded by both the beautiful and the toxic, where horror and beauty are entangled, where brushstrokes build images and deconstruct them simultaneously.
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Train Dreams
Train Dreams is an experimental three-channel video installation that examines the nature of memory and time by exploring history through railway culture. The exhibition includes animation, regional and international new and archival video footage, and an original sound design. This exhibition is a collaboration between four artists which portrays memory as a phenomenological, dream-like process. It does not unfold in a linear narrative process, but instead through a sequence of enactments, dissipations, and transformations. Train Dreams engages the viewer in a visceral process of sensory oscillation and plays with sense perceptions; creating experiences of scenes, shapes, spaces, colours, textures, and sounds, that blend together to form ambiguous impressions of the past.
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SHUTTER
SHUTTER is the fourth in an ongoing series of medium-centric group exhibitions presented at Touchstones Nelson: Museum of Art and History, curated by Arin Fay, which explore specific medium through as diverse a lens as possible. SHUTTER brings together artists: Dayna Danger, Adad Hannah, Sandra Semchuk/Jerry DesVoignes, Thaddeus Holownia, Althea Thauberger, Suzy Lake and Fred Rosenberg.
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Enduring Spirit
Enduring Spirit is a collection of tintype colloidal prints that capture a moment in time of several families who have created their own place in the world. The portraits present contemporary families, yet the tintype method is dripping with nostalgia and romance.
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Generational Echoes
Generational Echoes presents a survey of series created by Emma Nishimura and focuses on the narratives surrounding the Japanese Canadian internment. Based in Toronto, Emma’s work ranges from traditional etchings, archival pigment prints, drawings, and audio pieces to art installations. Using a diversity of media, her work addresses ideas of memory and loss that are rooted within family stories and inherited narratives.
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Broken Promises
Broken Promises examines this dark time in Canadian history through the stories of seven Japanese Canadians and explores life for Japanese Canadians in Canada before war, the administration of their lives during and after war ends, and how legacies of dispossession continue to this day.
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The Grow Show
Shakespeare (may have) smoked it. Bill Clinton definitely smoked it, but didn’t inhale. The Kootenays grew it – a lot of it. Canada legalized it. And now, Nelson Museum is doing a show about it.
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Métis Art and History
Mirroring the discussion of today’s global issues, this exhibition turns to art, collaboration and history to help charter a path forward to understanding and reconciliation. Partnering with the West Kootenay Métis Society, Métis Art and History – OTIPEMISIWAK: The People Who Own Themselves enlists the community, working with traditional art forms in artist-led workshops throughout the year, to create the work featured in the large-scale exhibition.
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20 Objects
In celebration of the 15th anniversary of Touchstones Nelson Museum of Art and History inhabiting the storied historical building on the corner of Ward and Vernon Street in Nelson BC this exhibition will share 15 notable objects from our Archives and Collections that will help tell the complex and interesting story of the people, place and perspectives that create and contribute to history.
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