[BCMA] Kamloops Art Gallery Media Release | Victoria Kjargaard exhibition opens April 13

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Victoria Kjargaard
untitled (from the series Pieces), 2023
Resin, translucent paper, wax
Photo credit Kamloops Museum and Archives/Victoria Kjargaard
51 x 51 cm

MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release from
Kamloops Art Gallery
April 4, 2024

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Victoria Kjargaard
Pieces

April 13 to July 6, 2024
The Cube, Kamloops Art Gallery
Curated by Elsie Joe, Curator, Secwépemc Museum and Heritage Park

History shared through layers of imagery in Pieces, a photo series illuminating the inconceivable truths of the Kamloops Indian Residential School.

The Kamloops Art Gallery’s spring exhibition Pieces opens April 13 in The Cube. This solo exhibition brings together the artwork of Vancouver-based, settler artist Victoria Kjargaard in dialogue with Nłeʔkepmx curator Elsie Joe. Though raised in Kamloops, Kjargaard knew little about the children’s graves found on the former property of the Kamloops Indian Residential School (KIRS). These stories were quietly told within Tk̓emlúps and numerous other Indigenous communities until 2021, when the truth was brought to the wider public.
With the approval of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc Chief and Council, Kjargaard embarked on Pieces to open a dialogue and confront her own shame, ignorance, anger, and sadness regarding the inconceivable truths of the KIRS. A series of images set with a process of pouring epoxy, sanding, and layering imagery represents Kjargaard’s own acknowledgment of Le Estcwicwéy̓ and related histories with the aspiration of collective healing and unity.
Visit Pieces in The Cube from April 13 to July 6, 2024. Admission to The Cube is always free.
Read the full Pieces<https://kag.bc.ca/all-exhibitions/pieces> exhibition text.

Media Information
Craig Willms, Assistant Curator
250.377.2406
cwillms at kag.bc.ca<mailto:cwillms at kag.bc.ca>

About the Kamloops Art Gallery
The Kamloops Art Gallery, established in 1978, is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people. 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.
of art.



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CRAIG WILLMS [he/him]
ASSISTANT CURATOR

cwillms at kag.bc.ca<mailto:cwillms at kag.bc.ca>
250.377.2400 ext. 2406


KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY
101 – 465 Victoria Street, Kamloops, BC  V2C 2A9
250.377.2400  |  www.kag.bc.ca<http://www.kag.bc.ca/>


The Kamloops Art Gallery is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people.

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