Dates
January 28th, 2021 to July 20th, 2021
Curator
Curated by Sage Paul and Lisa Myers for Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto
Funder
CCo-produced by AbTeC
Artists
Caroline Monnet
Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brien)
Leanna Marshall
Mad Aunty (Joi T. Arcand)
Olivia Whetung
Pacific Sisters
CCo-produced by AbTeC
A Thread That Never Breaks was inspired by the words of artist Meghann O’Brien, who described her woven textiles and baskets as threads that connect to ancestral knowledge. The exhibition visualizes the literal threads in garments as a metaphor for the strong connections between generations.
Originally scheduled to open in Toronto in Spring 2020, the exhibition had to adapt to the dramatic change to our lived realities as a result of the pandemic. Transmediation is the term for bringing an artwork from one medium to another. The artists transmediated their physical threads into pixels, polygons and lines of code for this virtual exhibition, each doing so slightly differently.
Exhibition Flythrough
Artworks
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Angel Aubichon. The Matriarch Speaks. 2017. In A Thread That Never Breaks, 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
A Thread That Never Breaks [installation view]. 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
Pacific Sisters. Tapa Papa. 2018. In A Thread That Never Breaks, 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
Jaad Kuujus (Meghann O’Brienn). Wrapped in the Cloud. 2018. In A Thread That Never Breaks, 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
Pacific Sisters. PS2069 (Pacific Sisters in the Future 20169). 2018. In A Thread That Never Breaks, 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
Leanna Marshall. Treaty #9. 2016. In A Thread That Never Breaks, 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
A Thread That Never Breaks [installation view]. 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
A Thread That Never Breaks [installation view]. 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
A Thread That Never Breaks [installation view]. 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
A Thread That Never Breaks [installation view]. 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
Vernissage Livestream
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A Thread That Never Breaks [installation view]. 28 January – 20 July 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Anastasia Erickson.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.
A Thread That Never Breaks vernissage. 28 January 2021. Machinimagraph credit: Maize Longboat.