Your Hands Touch Between Brambles
Artist(s): Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet
Date: October 23 to November 29
Exhibition Space: Main Exhibition
Reception: October 23 from 6–8 pm
Artist Talk: November 15 at 2 pm
In-Person tours: November 13 at 6:30 pm and November 26 at noon
Virtual Tour: November 14 at noon on Facebook Live
Co-Curator Tour: Your Hands Touch Between Brambles and St. Albert and the Northwest Resistance: 140 Years Later: November 28 from 3–4 pm
Walking through Your Hands Touch Between Brambles, we are surrounded by the sights, smells and memories of the fall harvest.
Kiona Callihoo Ligtvoet’s work begins with family. She grew up in a multi-generational home on a quarter-section land west of St. Albert. Her moshom, Ernie Callihoo, has cared for this land his entire life. This land means everything to Kiona and her family.
Kiona paints these moments, her family, land and laughter memories. She documents the deeply precious mundane gestures and jokes shared among family members daily, creating a rich archive of their experiences and history. And, like memory, the paintings aren’t fixed areas of extreme detail blended with absences and pencil sketches. There is space for her memories to overlap with those of her family and our own.
