Hair
In commissioned writer Téa Mutonji’s essay, we accompany her on her personal hair journey. We bump up against the notion of what it truly means to accept, to move on, to heal to start new.
Hannah McGregor’s essay, “Burning Out”, indirectly connects to the hair call via resilience and growth. In her essay I felt jolted and then rooted in the very problems that can grow in our lives. They expand. We chop them down. They come back. She reminds all of us that anything alive grows.
Hair can act as a container. It’s impossible to predict how much it can hold. In Unnati Desai’s poem “lagen season” the container swells as she gifts us family history through memory:
The Vancouver Art Gallery envisions a future program and collection for the 21st century
Hyung-Min Yoon, The Doors, 2016, inkjet print on plastic film, Collection of the Vancouver Art Gallery, Partial gift and partial purchase with proceeds from the Audain Emerging Artists Acquisition Fund.
VANCOUVER
.- On December 12, the Vancouver Art Gallery opens its new exhibition, Where do we go from here?, which proposes to think critically about the role of both art and institutionssuch as galleries and museumsin the process of producing narratives about the past, present and future.
Acting on the Vancouver Art Gallerys statement in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement this summer, Where do we go from here? developed as an opportunity to consider the Gallerys own collecting and exhibition history. Reflecting on the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Gallery in 1931, this exhibition both acknowledges the under representation of African diasporic artists in our col