[BCMA] Media Release Kamloops Art Gallery | Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory exhibition opens July 20

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MEDIA RELEASE
For immediate release from Kamloops Art Gallery
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Tarłów Synagogue with AI iii, Johnny Forever Nawracaj, 2024, archival pigment print, 25.4 x 25.4 cm


Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory
Gambletron
Johnny Forever Nawracaj
zev tiefenbach
Residency
July 10 to 20, 2024
Exhibition, The Cube, Kamloops Art Gallery
July 20 to September 21, 2024
Curated by Craig Willms
Forming a sense of queer, nonbinary, Ashkenazi-Slavic ancestral connection through photographs, videos, and installations at the Kamloops Art Gallery
This summer, Gambletron, Johnny Forever Nawracaj, and zev tiefenbach present a collaborative project at the Kamloops Art Gallery’s free admission space, The Cube. The artists will be working in The Cube to complete some of the works on-site during their artist residency from July 10 to 20, followed by the exhibition Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory, curated by Craig Willms, from July 20 to September 21.
Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory is rooted in the artists’ Eastern European Jewish heritage. Through photographs, videos, soundscapes, and radio broadcasts, the artists explore diasporic collective memory, focusing on Ashkenazi Jewish ancestry in Poland. Gambletron and tiefenbach, both Ashkenazi, draw from personal histories. tiefenbach’s grandparents were Holocaust survivors and Gambletron's grandfather was a notable Rabbi who immigrated to Canada in 1910. Nawracaj, a Slavic Pole, joins the project to explore their connections to the same region.
As part of their research, the artists journeyed through Eastern Europe. By returning to these lands, the artists attempt to situate themselves within their recurring family histories of re-settlement and form a sense of queer, nonbinary, Ashkenazi-Slavic ancestral connection. Their project confronts distortions of antisemitism and generational trauma, including by the Israeli government and other Zionist interests, offering tools for community and resistance.
Read the full Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory<https://kag.bc.ca/all-exhibitions/diasporist-anchors-for-future-memory> exhibition text.
Join the Gallery for the opening reception of Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital and Diasporist Anchors for Future Memory on Saturday July 20. Visit the exhibition from July 20 to September 21.

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.




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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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