About this event
Visual Art"What I've seen and felt along the pathway back to the Great Law of Peace I've recorded as reminders that strengthen me to move forward. And as I come through the thorny bushes towards the light of the clearing, I hesitate until the knowledge gathered between footsteps becomes visible and my breath repeats the phrase in constant return."
CRG is pleased to present a solo exhibition of recent work by the renowned artist, Greg Staats [Skarù:reˀ (Tuscarora) / Kanien’kehá:ka (Mohawk) b. 1963, Ohsweken, Six Nations of the Grand River Territory]. He is a Toronto-based artist whose ongoing Hodinöhsö:ni’ restorative aesthetic accumulates knowledge from the worldview found within language and defines the plurality of relationships with trauma and renewal. His lens-based language documents cycles of return towards a complete Onkwehón:we neha (our original ways). Staats articulates his on-reserve lived experience positionality in visual forms including: text works, photography, embodied wampum sculpture, performance, installation, and video.
The exhibition is open during regular gallery hours, Wednesday to Saturday, noon to 5 p.m.