An artist who saw first-hand the ecological loss from the wildfire in Lytton is exhibiting her work this fall at VIU’s View Gallery.
Connie Michele Morey’s exhibit ‘Threadbare’ has an opening reception Friday, Sept. 20, at the gallery at Vancouver Island University campus.
According to a release, Threadbare explores “the effects of colonial industries on interspecies displacement and ecological loss.” The mixed-media artist’s exhibit includes stitchwork, embroidery, sculpture, photography, stop-motion and performance.
Morey’s work on the project started at a cabin north of Lytton that she has been visiting since 2016. She returned after the area was devastated by wildfire in 2021, and took photos that became a basis for her art exhibit.
“The exhibition … consists of 12 bodies of work that navigate the tension between perceptions of interspecies relations as exploitable resources and the longing for familial relations,” she said in a release
WHAT’S ON … The exhibit is on until Nov. 1. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, Sept. 20, from 4-6 p.m.
