Under One Sky

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Nisrine Boukhari + Alun Macanulty, "OFFSITE_ONSITE / Ongoing Installation Projects," 2021

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Under One Sky participating artists:

SHELLEY VANDERBYL / NISRINE BOUKHARI / ALFREDO DE STEFANO / ANNE STEVES

collaborative curators:

ABIR BOUKHARI / DENISE LAWSON / ANGELA SOMERSET

supported through CVAG Productions + installation:

THOMAS ELLIOTT / DAVID LAWSON

The exhibition Under One Sky is a cumulative story of separation and connection told from multiple places, perspectives and voices. “We are all under one sky” – words spoken during an early development conversation – express the core theme of this exhibition that has evolved out of the year-long residency program as part of the OFFSITE_ONSITE convergent program. During this time of heightened awareness to the challenges of being held apart, new opportunities erupted for connecting, considering, and navigating the terrain of separation.

Virtual and in-person artist/curator/collaborating partner gatherings and creative research + production residencies extended over time. This allowed for relationship building, deep inquiry, collaborative production, sustained community engagement and the evolution of the presentations for exhibition. The resulting media and material installations, situated onsite at CVAG and offsite within the community and further afield, offer access points to the states of mind-wandering, loneliness, interception of the unexpected, and the possibilities for relationships with people and places both near and far.

Offsite Onsite Installation Projects

ONSITE_ at the Comox Valley Art Gallery, Courtenay BC Canada, sound + video installations can been experienced on the lower level 6th Street gallery window and the access space (Nisrene Boukhari, Shelley Vanderbyl) and in the Comox Valley Art Gallery Foyer Community Gallery (Alfredo de Stefano).

OFFSITE_ can be seen in the Village of Cumberland at Dunsmuir Street and 1st Street / in various locations across western Newfoundland Canada (Anne Steves with Tangiene Martin O’Hara) and at the Courtenay and District Museum & Palaeontology Centre (Alfredo De Stefano).

OFFSITE_ONSITE / Ongoing Installation Projects

NISRINE BOUKHARI + SHELLEY VANDERBYL + ABIR BOUKHARI

Over the span of time and the space between us, we engage in a relational practice that brings together the work of artists and curators from the Comox Valley, Sweden and Austria.

ONGOING INSTALLATION PROJECTS – visible day and night @ The Comox Valley Art Gallery corner of 6th Street + Duncan Avenue lower level window spaces​.

Looking in and looking out, the traces of creative research, dialogue and curiosity are made visible through virtual glimpses of ongoing offsite and onsite residency projects.

“I want to establish a connection with strangers, with their lives without being there without knowing each other to approach them even without prior knowledge.” – Nisrine Boukhari

“Sometimes – people just want to know that others are around.” – Shelly Vanderbyl