Artist: Richelle Greabeiel
Title: Untitled (from the Sointula series)
Year: 2023
Medium: Pigment prints mounted on charred wood boxes
Dimensions: 16” x 24” each panel
Edition: Unique
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“metsänpeitto” Exhibition” by Richelle Greabeiel
Curated by Alejandro A. Barbosa
Opening Reception
November 4 from 2 - 5pm
Exhibition Dates
November 4 - December 2, 2023
Gallery Conversation: Richelle Greabeiel with Alejandro A. Barbosa
November 11, 2023 from 1 - 2:30 pm
metsänpeitto Sound Presentation & Social Event: Richelle Greabeiel and de_vinchee (sounds designer)
November 17, 2023 from 6 - 9 pm
metsänpeitto Exhibition
Join us Saturday, November 4, 2023 for Richelle Greabeiel’s metsänpeitto exhibition and opening reception. metsänpeitto is a word from Finnish folklore that can be translated as “to be covered in forest” and as “a state of being where a familiar forest becomes unrecognizable.” Greabeiel’s metsänpeitto explores photography as a site to inhabit and undo family myths through performance.
The work presented in the show was produced in 2023 during Greabeiel’s stay at the Art Shed residency in Sointula, British Columbia. Originally founded in 1901 by socialist Finnish settlers, Sointula is located on the traditional, ancestral and unceded Kwakwaka’wakw territory of the ‘Namgis, Mamalilikala, and Kwakiutl Nations, also known by the colonial name, Malcolm Island.
ARTIST BIO
Richelle Greabeiel is an emerging, multidisciplinary artist born in so called Canada and is of Finnish descent. She lives and works on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Wautuh peoples. Since 2019, Richelle keeps an art practice focused on investigating the intersections of history, personal narratives and placemaking through site-specific performance, lens-based and sculptural explorations. Her work utilizes conceptual and multi sensory frames of reference.
CURATOR
Alejandro A. Barbosa (they/he) is an HIV-negative queer latinx visual artist born in Argentina who lives and works on the traditional, ancestral, and unceded territories of the Coast Salish peoples—the Musqueam, Squamish, and Tsleil-Waututh Nations—in what is known as Canada. Alejandro’s curatorial practice focuses on lens-based media and revolves around questions on the political potential of the photo-based exhibition as a cultural form, the intersection of photography and family histories, and the ever-shifting relationship of the photographic image with violence. They hold an MFA in visual art from the University of British Columbia, and a BFA in photography from Concordia University. Alejandro’s curatorial projects have been exhibited in Argentina and Canada.