Textile Museum of Canada Presents Wild

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Textile Museum of Canada

Three Western Canadian artists are participating in a five-person exhibition at the Textile Museum of Canada in Toronto until March 15.

Wild features work chosen by curator Farah Yusuf that makes mischief of tidy systems of classification. Through a range of textile processes and materials, the artists render fabulous flora and fauna that are defiantly aberrant, untamed and uncultivated.

Saskatchewan artist Catherine Blackburn pays tribute to her late grandparents, their traditional way of life and the land that has sustained the Densuline people for centuries.

Vancouver-based artist Carrie Allison honours endangered Indigenous plants of Nova Scotia through beaded sketches that contrast Western systems of classification with Indigenous ways of knowing.

Saskatchewan artist Humboldt Magnussen engages costuming to defy masculine norms with helmets that provide a safe space for personal transformation.

Montreal-based Emily Jan expresses ecological concern for the world’s oceans and rainforests through felted bestiaries of imaginary creatures.

Toronto-based artist Omar Badrin confronts his experience of feeling alien as a visible minority through crocheted neon skins.

Visit www.textilemuseum.ca for more information.

Source: Textile Museum of Canada