GLEANERS
=0D=0A=January 24 to May 2, 2015 Downtown Gallery
=0D=0A=Opening January 23, 7pm
=0D=0A=Sean Alward, Joost Conijn, Randy Lee Cutler, Steven Davies, Michael Drebert, Joar Nango, Kara Uzelman
=0D=0A=Curated by Jesse Birch
=0D=0A=This exhibition takes its name from Jean Francois Millet’s painting "The Gleaners" (1857), which depicts three peasant women hunched down picking the remainders of a harvest. The traditional practice of gleaning involves gathering and sharing forgotten or ignored food crops, but gleaning occurs whenever things or ideas that were once cast aside are given new value.
=0D=0A=In this exhibition seven Canadian and international artists glean for stories. Storytellers acquire their tales through travel to distant places, slow engagement with a single place or idea, or a combination of the two. In Gleaners, the process of collecting stories is integrated within the narratives themselves. These tales are shared through a range of media including photography, video, sculpture, music, and word of mouth. The exhibition will be accompanied by information about Nanaimo’s organised food gleaning programs courtesy of Nanaimo Foodshare.
=0D=0A=Free events and public programming:
=0D=0A=A talk and tour on the relationship between collecting and storytelling with artist Kara Uzelman and curator Jesse Birch on Saturday, January 24, 2pm.
=0D=0A=Screenings of Agnes Varda’s The Gleaners and I will be held at 7pm on Friday February 13, Friday March 13, and Friday April 10, Nanaimo Art Gallery’s Art Lab
=0D=0A=Gleaners: Salt Walk Saturday April 18, 2pm A Salt Walk with Randy Lee Cutler. Join artist Randy Lee Cutler for a walk through downtown Nanaimo exploring the enduring relationship that civilizations have had with salt, from its importance in food preservaton and healing to more aesthetic and philosphical implications.
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