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Campbell River Art Gallery 1235 Shopper's Row, Campbell River, British Columbia V9W 2C7
Farheen HaQ, "drinking from my mother's saucer," 2022
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Join us on Thursday September 1st / 5:00pm to celebrate the opening of our newest exhibition میں اپنی ماں کی بیٹی ہوں | I am my mother’s daughter
Our new exhibition میں اپنی ماں کی بیٹی ہوں | I am my mother’s daughter is a solo exhibition by artist Farheen HaQ featuring video and sculptural installation. It celebrates the resilience and knowledge systems of HaQ’s mother who arrived in Canada in the 1970s to meet her partner in an arranged marriage, settling in the Niagara region (Ontario), Haudenosaunee territory. The exhibition weaves together intergenerational relationships, connecting the experience of the artist’s mother with HaQ’s experience as a child of that union and subsequently, its impact on her own experience as a mother. The artist’s work of inner housekeeping includes personal journeys through a family’s past as a way of moving forward, and political reconciliations determined by the territories on which she and her family arrived as guests. The artist explores how she carries the past and how she determines its legacy into the future.
Come for an evening of delicious appys, drinks and be the first to experience this incredible exhibition!