I’ll Be Your Mirror

February 2 - April 9, 2022

Curated by Crystal Mowry

Stephanie Comilang, Erika De Freitas, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Neil Goldberg, Milutin Gubash, Vivek Shraya

This exhibition convenes the work of contemporary artists who enlist their parents in their practice. Working across various lens-based strategies to revisit found images and reflect on notions of inheritance, each artist proposes multiple ways of understanding familial intimacy. Some choose to engage their parents as performers in both absurd and poetic capacities, as a subject or a disembodied narrator. Others lean on their parents to provide a tether to the past that questions the formation of identity while redressing invisibility. Tender and unflinchingly honest, these works spur us to think about how expectation inevitably shapes intergenerational relationships, often in ways that only make sense when we are grown.

Organized and circulated by the Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery