[BCMA] Kamloops Art Gallery Media Release | Cindy Mochizuki exhibition opens April 20

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[Cindy Mochizuki  Autumn Strawberry, 2021  60 minute multi-media installation, watercolour on paper and   digital animation  Installation view, Surrey Art Gallery  Photo: Dennis Ha]

MEDIA RELEASE

For immediate release from
Kamloops Art Gallery
April 9, 2024

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Cindy Mochizuki
Ancestral Dreams and Other Premonitions

April 20 to July 6, 2024
Central Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery
Curated by Charo Neville

Artist and Curator Conversation: Saturday, April 20, 5:30 to 6:30 pm
Opening Reception: Saturday, April 20, 6:30 to 8:00 pm

Cindy Mochizuki’s immersive multi-media exhibition holds space for the stories of Japanese Canadians through audio fiction, performance, animation, and community engagement.

The Kamloops Art Gallery’s spring exhibition Ancestral Dreams and Other Premonitions, curated by Charo Neville, opens April 20. In this solo exhibition, Vancouver-based artist Cindy Mochizuki, re-tells stories drawn from the Japanese Canadian experience. Employing audio fiction, performance, animation, and community engagement, Mochizuki’s multi-media installation weaves family, community, and memory to shed light on invisible histories and archives. Mochizuki’s practice opens pathways for Japanese Canadians to share stories shaped by trauma and reveal a larger narrative of Japanese resilience in Canada, often drawing from her family’s history within internment camps in Canada during World War II and their post-war experiences in Japan.

Step into the real and imagined realms of Ancestral Dreams and Other Premonitions through four key artworks. Autumn Strawberry and Tides & Moons: Herring Capital illuminate the resilience of Japanese Canadian communities amidst adversity, The Sakaki Tree, a Jewel, and the Mirror explores folklore through 50 enigmatic figurines and performances, and Cave to Dream features four fictional videos with sound, hand-drawn animation, and live-action video.

Join us for the opening reception and visit Ancestral Dreams and Other Premonitions in the Central Gallery from April 20 to July 6, 2024.

Read the full Ancestral Dreams & Other Premonitions<https://kag.bc.ca/all-exhibitions/ancestraldreamsandotherpremonitions> exhibition text.

This exhibition is generously supported by the Women’s Art Initiative.

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




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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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