Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada at Winnipeg Art Gallery

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Sarindar Dhaliwal, “the cartographer’s mistake: the Radcliffe Line,” installation view at Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton (photo by Charles Cousins)

The Winnipeg Art Gallery is presenting Vision Exchange: Perspectives from India to Canada, Manitoba’s first major exhibition celebrating contemporary artists with roots in India.

The show, which runs from May 11 to Sept. 8, features 20 leading contemporary artists from India and Canada and was organized by the Art Gallery of Alberta and the National Gallery of Canada.

It includes a work by Winnipeg artist Divya Mehra, who addresses the long-term effects of colonization and institutional racism. Her piece is an inflatable installation titled Afterlife of Colonialism..., and is placed, with irony, in the gallery's salon of historical  European paintings.

The show includes some 100 works, ranging from video and photography to painting and sculpture. Artists address issues related to migration, diaspora and shifting histories and borders.

Source: Winnipeg Art Gallery