In her 2017 video installation being who you are there is no other, Karuhanga subverts common associations with Black bodies and the urban landscape by positioning herself and her collaborator Ahlam Hassan within a pastoral natural landscape. Her work offers meditations on the geopolitics of Blackness. Incorporating her background in dance and choreography, Karuhanga engages with her body and the bodies of other Black women as a gesture of empowerment and a critique of the Black body as entertainment. This selection of videos, nightly tours and accompanying online programs offer a portal to urban transformation and insightful encounters. Projects this year touch on themes of power and resistance, strength and fragility, public and private, connection and isolation. Presented through the shared curatorial perspective of Kamloops Art Gallery Curator Charo Neville and Guest Curator Zoë Chan, the participating artists impart diverse experiences through projects that provide insight into histories and futures. ![]() ![]() ![]() This year’s program responds to this unprecedented moment in history, where the world is collectively experiencing a pandemic with its effects of death, loss, and isolation, the upheaval of economic and political systems, and mass uprisings against police brutality and white supremacy, amidst the ongoing climate crisis. The world has drastically changed since the Kamloops Art Gallery presented Luminocity in 2018.
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