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Two Names: The Ideological Construction of Multiculturalism and its Mechanisms

Two weeks prior to the opening of “Untitled (Entitled),” between a hectic schedule of dance rehearsals, installation, photo shoots, and sound tests, Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn and Bonniers Konsthall’s curator Yuvinka Medina took a moment to reflect on their time working together and how the exhibition came to fruition. Over coffee cups and computers, and keeping COVID safety measures in mind, a conversation between artist and curator unfurled.

Issue 38.1 – Spring 2021

Our Spring 2021 issue features a selection of candid conversations between artist Erika DeFreitas and Tarin Dehod, Jessie Ray Short and Laura St. Pierre, and Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn and Yuvinka Medina. It also presents the work of Chrysanne Stathacos, Timothy Yanick Hunter, and Christopher Lacroix as well as writing by Derek Coulombe, Nicole Leroy, and Lodoe Laura.

Each print publication contains a beautiful limited-edition lenticular postcard by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn in partnership with Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm.

“Book of Mormon” Stories Ruth Cuthand Retells To Me

“As a child, unable to enter the temple myself, I understood it as a special place where sacred rituals were performed, and that inside, everything was white and beautiful. In Cuthand’s paintings, the temple has an imposing presence, not simply because of the weight of its solid granite walls, but because of the belief system it symbolizes as it floats, totemic, in the background.”

She & Her & Me

Featuring the work of Arpita Shah, Clea Christakos-Gee, Jennifer Long, and Margaret Mitchell, this collection of images reflects some of the strange pain and beauty of being raised and moving through this world in bodies designated “female.”

Dislocation and Reclamation: Rebuilding Indigenous Families in Gil Cardinal’s “Foster Child” and Tasha Hubbard’s “Birth of a Family”

Although the two documentaries were made 30 years apart, these stories help us understand the true scope of loss and the way reverberations from trauma can stretch out further than it’s possible to see.

The Ceaseless Legacy of KC Adams

Rooted in ancestral knowledge, sacred materials, and traditional teachings, KC’s recent work uses materials and process to investigate the continuous transfer of knowledge throughout generations, walking in the footsteps of her ancestors.