[BCMA] Kamloops Art Gallery Media Release | Deanna Bowen: Black Drones in the Hive opens September 23

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Deanna Bowen
installation view of Taps in Black Drones in the Hive, 2020
video, 1 minute, 20 seconds
Performed by Charles Ellison and filmed on location at OBORO, Montréal
Courtesy of the Artist and the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery
Photo: Toni Hafkensheid
MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release from
Kamloops Art Gallery
September 11, 2023

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Deanna Bowen
Black Drones in the Hive

September 23 to December 30, 2023
Central Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery

Unveiling Black Drones in the Hive: artist Deanna Bowen explores narrative of Black survival

Interdisciplinary Artist Deanna Bowen presents a series of visual chapters through prints, reproduced archival materials, and video works in her exhibition Black Drones in the Hive at the Kamloops Art Gallery. A descendant of two Black pioneer families who moved from Alabama and Kentucky to the Alberta prairie, the core of Bowen’s practice traces her family history within a broader narrative of Black survival in Canada and the United States. Through reproduced artefacts of historical texts, petitions, archives, and a family history of fleeing racial violence and segregation, Bowen's work defines the Black body, tracing its presence and movement through time and place.

Black Drones in the Hive is curated by Crystal Mowry, organized by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery, circulated in partnership with the MacKenzie Art Gallery, and produced with the support of the City of Toronto through the Toronto Arts Council.

Read the full exhibition text here<https://kag.bc.ca/all-exhibitions/black-drones-in-the-hive>.

Media Information
Charo Neville, Curator
250.377.2410
cneville at kag.bc.ca

About the Kamloops Art Gallery

The Kamloops Art Gallery, established in 1978, is located in Tk̓emlupsemcúlecw, the traditional and unceded lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc. The largest art gallery in Secwepemcúl̓ecw (the Interior of British Columbia), the Gallery offers national caliber art experiences through a diverse range of accessible and affordable exhibitions, talks, tours, and studio-based programming for all ages and abilities, and boasts a collection of over 3,000 works of art.


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KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY
101 – 465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC  V2C 2A9
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The Kamloops Art Gallery is situated on the traditional unceded lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw; the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people.

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