Children Shouldn’t Use Knives and Other Tales
Adèle Barclay
Children Shouldn’t Use Knives and Other Tales shreds the yellow ribbons of childhood sentimentality and, instead, offers an exploration of what it feels like to be small and vulnerable in a stormy world.
I’m not nostalgic for childhood. Childhood was terrifying the lack of agency, the grownup world’s opaque set of rules, the playground’s ferocious pecking order, the fear of real and imaginary things. And so I’m grateful that Shirley Camia’s
Children Shouldn’t Use Knives and Other Tales shreds the yellow ribbons of childhood sentimentality and, instead, offers an exploration of what it feels like to be small and vulnerable in a stormy world.
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