Eve Tagny
landless heirloom
10 June - 21 July, 2023

landless heirloom is a solo exhibition of works by Eve Tagny (QC). This is Tagny's first exhibition in the prairies.

This exhibition is co-presented with Blinkers Art + Project Space. 
 

EXHIBITION | 10 June – 22 July, 2023

PERFORMANCE | 10 June, 6PM at Blinkers Art + Project Space

OPENING RECEPTION | 10 June, 7PM – 10PM at PLATFORM centre
 

An enclosure as the promise of a sanctuary

An enclosure as a means of exclusion

 

landless heirloom presents an entanglement of both pre-existing and new works, that questions the relationships between land, and agrarian

and extractive capitalism.

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The multiple videos presented are set in landscapes traversed by histories of private ownership,  colonial claims on territories, removal and displacement of populations, enclosures, physical labour, profit, but also stewardship, care, leisure, rootedness and non-human life relations. 

The scenes are activated — at times organically, at times ceremoniously  — by Black beings, 

not here defined by the haunting ghost of property. 

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In the gallery space, these collated geographies escape linear time and space 

They exist somewhere in the interstice and the stuff that binds back together experiences of grieving for a 

lost

     ruptured

              fractured 

Land that exist outside of rationalization

Lodged deep deep within our     diasporic —     displaced  — migrant     —   settler

                           Selves

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BIOGRAPHY

Eve Tagny is a Tiohtià:ke/Montreal-based artist. Her practice considers gardens and disrupted landscapes as mutable sites of personal and collective memory — inscribed in dynamics of power, colonial histories and their legacies. Weaving lens-based mediums, installation, text and performance, she explores spiritual and embodied expressions of grief and resiliency, incorrelation with nature’s rhythms, cycles and materiality.

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Tagny has a BFA in Film Production from Concordia University and a Certificate in Journalism from University of Montreal. Recent exhibitions include Henry Art, Seattle; Musée de Joliette, Momenta Biennale, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal and Centre Clark, Montreal; VAC, Cooper Cole, Gallery 44, and Franz Kaka, Toronto. She is the recipient of the Mfon grant (2018), the Plein Sud Bursary (2020), has been shortlisted for the Prix en art actuels MNBAQ (2023), Gala Dynastie (2023), CAP Prize (2018), the Burtynsky Photobook Grant (2018), the OAAG Award (2020) and longlisted for the New Generation Photography Award (2022).