Curator
Artists
Simranpreet Anand, Jo-Anne Balcaen, August Klintberg, Lindsay McIntyre, Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez
Exhibition Dates
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Jo-Anne Balcaen, “Try and Try,” State of Mind, from the Grumpy Thoughts About Art series, 2012–, laser print on card stock, 27.9 x 43.1 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
August Klintberg, Lookbook (M 1-4) from the Lookbook series, 2025, toner and hand-cut aluminum sequins applied with stainless steel lace pins and staples on archival, acid-free, Japanese kozo paper, hinge-mounted to museum board, Plexiglas box, 87.6 x 57.1 x 3.2 cm (each). Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette.
Simranpreet Anand with Conner Singh VanderBeek, Foreign Dreams, 2024, installation at Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (detail), dimensions variable. Courtesy of the Artists.
Anne Koizumi, In the Shadow of the Pines (still), 2020, animation, 7:00 min. Courtesy of the Artist.
Jo-Anne Balcaen, “Try and Try,” State of Mind, from the Grumpy Thoughts About Art series, 2012–, laser print on card stock, 27.9 x 43.1 cm. Courtesy of the Artist.
August Klintberg, Lookbook (M 1-4) from the Lookbook series, 2025, toner and hand-cut aluminum sequins applied with stainless steel lace pins and staples on archival, acid-free, Japanese kozo paper, hinge-mounted to museum board, Plexiglas box, 87.6 x 57.1 x 3.2 cm (each). Courtesy of the Artist and Galerie Pierre-François Ouellette.
Simranpreet Anand with Conner Singh VanderBeek, Foreign Dreams, 2024, installation at Workers Arts and Heritage Centre (detail), dimensions variable. Courtesy of the Artists.
Anne Koizumi, In the Shadow of the Pines (still), 2020, animation, 7:00 min. Courtesy of the Artist.
Selected
I Digress
Opening Reception
Saturday, April 18, 2 – 4 pm
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…to create a kind of memoir that stretches beyond the boundaries of my individual life.
– Billy-Ray Belcourt, A History of My Brief Body (2020)
Representing a wide range of perspectives, I Digress presents work by artists who engage with both lived experiences and collective histories in their art practices. Some artists embrace an autobiographical or confessional vein, drawing from memoirs, diaries, and photo albums, while others mine existing archives and ephemera found in the public realm, employing a more documentary-style approach.
Working across diverse media including photography, video, printmaking, embroidery, and collage, these artists bring into focus myriad memories and microhistories revolving around such varied topics as the intersection of class shame and diasporic experience; queer coming-of-age in conservative Alberta; the exploitation of Punjabi students and migrant workers in Canada; and the real and imagined fears that undergird artistic life.
The exhibition includes work by Simranpreet Anand, Jo-Anne Balcaen, August Klintberg, Anne Koizumi, Lindsay McIntyre, and Gonzalo Reyes Rodriguez.
