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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-right:51.95pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Avenir 55",serif;mso-ligatures:none">Zoe Kreye<i>, Somatic Painting Ritual</i>, 2022, studio process, courtesy of the Artist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Zoe Kreye<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><i><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">I know about lots of things I’ve never seen. And so do you.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">April 22 to June 30, 2023<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Central Gallery, Kamloops Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Experience art made from the body with Vancouver-based artist Zoe Kreye’s immersive installation.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="text-autospace:none"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Kreye invites viewers to trust their instincts and embrace their internal knowledge through colorful fabric and sculptural objects at Kamloops Art Gallery.<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">I know about lots of things I’ve never seen. And so do you.
</span></i><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">invites us to trust our internal knowledge. Vancouver-based artist
<span style="color:black">Zoe Kreye’s work is created through a studio practice informed by politicized somatics<b>
</b>which grounds the artist in her body and allows her to connect with creative forces informed by her bodily sensations.</span></span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">
</span><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Stretching canvas across the floor, Kreye uses ink to trace her bodily sensations, repeating and expanding the movement, creating rippling line drawings on rolls of 100-metre canvas. She creates repeated
line patterns by sensing where her body wants to go in that moment, using her body to make the mark.
<span style="color:black">Kreye</span> uses exercises from dance, performance, therapy, and bodywork to refine her intuitive impulses that guide her movement and methods in the studio.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">Designed specifically for the Kamloops Art Gallery’s space, an installation of fabric and sculptural objects forms arches, passageways, and cave entrances based on painted gestures that
encapsulate the whole body. This fabric forms colourful, immersive spaces, including a hammock that invites visitors to rest and feel.
<i><span style="color:black">I know about lots of things I’ve never seen. And so do you.
</span></i><span style="color:black">recognizes the instinctive knowledge that we each bring to a gallery space and creates a space of reverence, offering the potential for transformative experiences into daily life.<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Zoe Kreye is a full-time artist and mother currently living in Vancouver, the unceded, traditional and ancestral territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam),
Sḵwx̱wú7mesh Úxwumixw (Squamish), and səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. <span style="color:black;background:white">
Kreye’s lineage is of white Northern European ancestry (German, British, Scottish, Scandinavian) and western art historical, spiritual, and educational values. Her work seeks to unlearn the myths of separation and supremacy
</span>that uphold these legacies.<b> <o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Curated by Charo Neville, Curator, Kamloops Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">Read the full exhibition text
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA"><a href="https://kag.bc.ca/all-exhibitions/kreye"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:blue">here</span></a></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:13.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-CA">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">I know about lots of things I’ve never seen. And so do you.
</span></i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">is a quote from </span>
<span style="font-size:10.0pt;mso-ligatures:none;mso-fareast-language:EN-GB">Clarice Lispector, dedication by the author in
<i>The Hour of the Star</i>,<i> </i>trans. Benjamin Moser, 2nd ed.<i> </i>(New York: New Directions, 2011), xiv.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Media Information
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Charo Neville, Curator<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">250.377.2410<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">cneville@kag.bc.ca<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">About the Kamloops Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.5in"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Light",serif;color:#333F50;letter-spacing:1.0pt;mso-ligatures:none">KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw; the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 35 Light",serif;color:#333F50;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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