<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">For Immediate Release<div><br></div><div><span id="m_8803770261204203380m_-5358194885657938053gmail-docs-internal-guid-7223ecfa-7fff-7355-7cb8-8d76d3c8f68c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carried Through the Water</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">April 15- June 26, 2021</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Opening Reception, April 22, 7 - 9 pm</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nanaimo Art Gallery is excited to present </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carried Through the Water</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, a solo exhibition by Diyan Achjadi.</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carried Through the Water</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> features Diyan's beautiful stop motion watercolour animation </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hush</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">, alongside new and recent works on paper that explore the impact of human activity on the ecosystem, including shifting of shorelines due to climate change and land reclamation. Through visual storytelling, Diyan’s work also considers how activities in one location might impact multiple other locations. An ash-cloud from volcanic activity on one island might change the colour of the sky thousands of miles away, and the movement of people, objects, stories, and memories, can have profound effects that reach across oceans. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> </span></p><p style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Nanaimo Art Gallery will be offering public programs throughout the run of the exhibition inspired by <i>Carried Through the Water</i> including our monthly drop-in series, Art Lab Sundays where anyone can come learn Stop Motion Animation on May 15th from 1 - 4 pm. We are also offering weekly Friday lunchtime tours of <i>Carried Through the Water</i>.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.8;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Diyan Achjadi is a Vancouver-based artist who explores the ways that surface ornamentation and illustrated printed matter can document the circulation of ideas and stories in visual form. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia, her formative years were spent moving between multiple educational, political, and cultural systems.</span></p><br><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Carried Through the Water</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"> is the first exhibition in which Nanaimo Art Gallery asks the question: </span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-style:italic;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">What stories do we te</span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">ll? After the Nanaimo iteration, this exhibition will tour to Burnaby Art Gallery where it will be on display from July 15 to Sept 18, 2022.</span></span><br></div><div><span><span style="font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></span></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">- 30 - </span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Media Contact: Jesse Birch, Curator<a href="mailto:jesse@nanaimoartgallery.ca" target="_blank"> jesse@nanaimoartgallery.ca</a></span></font></div><div><font color="#000000" face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14px;white-space:pre-wrap">Website: </span></font><a href="https://nanaimoartgallery.ca/exhibition/carried-through-the-water/" target="_blank">https://nanaimoartgallery.ca/exhibition/carried-through-the-water/</a></div><div>Public Programs:<a href="https://nanaimoartgallery.ca/product-category/programs/all/" target="_blank"> https://nanaimoartgallery.ca/product-category/programs/all/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Images by Sean Fenzl</div><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Dana Gage (she/her)</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Marketing & Communications Coordinator</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Nanaimo Art Gallery</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Snuneymuxw Territory<br></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">150 Commercial Street</div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Nanai<span style="font-size:12.8px">mo,</span><span style="font-size:12.8px"> BC, V9R 5G6</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">250.75<span style="font-size:12.8px">4.1750</span></div><div><a href="http://nanaimoartgallery.ca" target="_blank"><font color="#0000ff"><font>nanaimoartgallery.c</font>a</font></a></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)">Follow us on social media: <a href="https://www.facebook.com/nanaimoartgallery/" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@nanaimoartgallery</a> & <span dir="ltr" style="font-size:14px;color:rgb(101,119,134);direction:ltr!important"><a href="https://twitter.com/?lang=en" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank">@nanaimoartgllr</a> & <a href="http://instagram.com/nanaimoartgallery" target="_blank">@nanaimoartgallery</a></span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34)"><br></div></div></div></div>
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