Alternator exhibition essays respond to the artworks presented through our Main Gallery exhibition series, and add another layer of interpretation to the exhibitions on view. These essays take a variety of forms: formal essays, Q&As with the artist, interpretive responses, and other types of creative writing pieces.
Read the essay supporting our current exhibition below, or review the essay archive going back to 2019.
Interested in writing for us? Learn how to join our roster of writers here.
Kelly Terbasket has crafted a new interpretive essay on the Similkameen Artist Residency’s current exhibition The Guest Book. Kelly reflects on her mixed heritages—syilx and settler—and how “code-switching” became a mode of survival for her. At the Similkameen Artist Residency, she leaned into her art to bring her to a place of authenticity, unburdened by the “colonial need for perfection, exhibiting, [and] commodifying.”
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