Thursday, June 11, 6-7 pm.
Location: SNAP Gallery and Printshop, 10572 115 St. NW, Edmonton, AB T5H 3K6
Accessibility info: https://snapartists.com/accessibility-at-snap/
Join Exhibiting Artist Salem Smith for an artist talk in conjunction with his exhibition, we are each other’s.
we are each other’s acknowledges our precarious future by reimagining the mundane through the lens of loss. Salem Smith’s trinkets, iPhone photos, and notes app love letters become protective talismans constructed from wrapping paper and bright patchwork images. Smith employs screenprinting to tile together large images to mirror his fragmented yet whole sense of his own gender and belonging. Intimate household objects act as offerings to explore how love, death, and transitioning intersect, drawing on concepts of past lives and ancestral veneration. This work, both a celebration and a preemptive grieving, imagines the space as an altar to love itself.
Salem Zurch Smith is a multimedia story-teller working in photography, film, and printmaking. Through ritual, astrology, and long walks, Smith continually finds new ways of bridging his spiritual and artistic practice. Salem lives in amiskwacîwâskahikan with his beloved and his two cats, Truck and Alfie. He dreams of one day being an absolutely shredded grandpa with 3-12 grandbabies.
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