borrowed land

September 30 - December 31, 2021

A series of exhibited works including sculpture, letterpress, documentation and experimentations reflecting on the physical presence of a settler home on the stolen traditional territory of the Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ.

• soil from 1595 Bay Street in Ucluelet with traditional trading bead

Mamaałni
wooden rowboat, cut sod from district lot 282 on Yuułuʔiłʔatḥ territory (1595 Bay Street)

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The Nuu-chah-nulth word for white person – mamaałni – translates as ‘people of floating houses’ and refers to Europeans who arrived by boat and were thus, ‘people of no land’.

- part of Borrowed Land, a changing series of exhibitions running until the end of December.