Exhibition: Rosalie Favell | Belonging (1982-2024)
Open until Nov 22
Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG)
101 Queen St N, Kitchener, ON N2H 6P7, Canada
Free
Organized by Kitchener-Waterloo Art Gallery (KWAG)
Curated by Ryan Rice
Organized and circulated by Onsite Gallery
Belonging is the first retrospective of renowned Red River Métis artist Rosalie Favell, showcasing a powerful curated selection of her lens-based works from 1982 to 2024. This exhibition celebrates Favell’s groundbreaking photographic practice—from seminal series like Living Evidence and Plain(s) Warrior Artist to her expansive archive Facing the Camera—which invites us to bear witness and explore the complex themes of identity, empowerment, same-sex desire, community and the nuanced search for belonging through a lens that is both deeply personal and subtly subversive.
Favell has deployed photography as a critical practice to navigate complex identities, personal and collective, that focus on strategies of empowerment, the archive and family ties, nationhood and making visible, public and private, issues of sexuality. Amassing her works from across her creative journey from her ground-breaking series Living Evidence (1993) to the ongoing comprehensive archive Facing the Camera, we bear witness to Favell’s photographic explorations that emulate the complex longing desires to locate a sense of autonomy to belong amongst many.