Landfall and Departure

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Marina Roy and Graham Meisner, “Mal de mer,” 2016

film still, 40 min.

A group show at the Nanaimo Art Gallery on Vancouver Island looks at unusual topic – the ocean harbour. The gallery, which is celebrating its 40th anniversary, is just a block from Nanaimo's  waterfront.

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Tommy Ting, “Machine" (Iron Chink, invented in 1903, found at the Gulf of Georgia Cannery in Steveston, B.C., refabricated in Beijing), 2012

PVC and wooden crate

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Hajra Waheed, “Untitled (MAP),” 2016

infographic print on vellum, 24.6" x 164”

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"Harbours have their own particular features and histories, but they can also articulate shared characteristics as places of both refuge and dislocation," the gallery says, noting the displacement of the Snuneymuxw people, the arrival of mine workers from China, Britain and Scandinavia, and the Second World War internment of Japanese-Canadians who ran herring salteries and boat-building companies. 

Landfall and Departure: Prologue, which runs until March 25, features a range of art including historical work by painters E.J. Hughes and Jack Shadbolt as well as contemporary work by Stan Douglas, Hajra Waheed, Marina Roy, Graham Meisner and others.

It's the third in a series of three exhibitions that look at West Coast resource industries. Black Diamond Dust, in 2014, responded to coal mining; the second, Silva, responded to forestry. Landfall and Departure is a two-part project that will continue until 2018.