Presented by The Gordon and Marion Smith Foundation for Young Artists

Gallery Hours: Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, 12–4 PM, Closed holiday weekends

Admission by donation

Exhibition Opening Reception: Saturday, April 23, 2:00–4:00 pm

Please join guest curator Kate Henderson and exhibiting artists Russna Kaur, M.E.
Sparks, and Andrea Taylor to celebrate the exhibition and launch of its accompanying
publication, a Zine designed by Margery Theroux and featuring commissioned texts by
Yani Kong, SSHRC Doctoral Fellow of Contemporary Art at the School for the Contemporary Arts, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver and Jayne Wilkinson, writer,
editor, and curator.

We can only hint at this with words considers the work of three Canadian women
artists whose work speaks to experiential and radical lines of questioning, bodily
freedom, care, and rebellion. Through multi-surfaced experiential painting, sculpture,
installation, and animation, these three artists aim to fill in the blanks where words
cannot describe the myriad personal, historical, and cultural encounters and
occurrences that make up the human experience. The exhibited works resist the
boundaries of the gallery wall "they creep, fold, and drape throughout the space. In
this way, these mixed-media objects become living, breathing bodies in the room"
entities viewers can engage in wordless conversation with. The artists cull from
childhood narratives, cultural traditions, and art historical legacies to create new
meanings. Through the artists processes of revising histories"both personal and
political"they subvert heteronormative, patriarchal legacies, proposing alternative
narratives that reject oppressive histories bound to the female body.