


Thunderstruck
Main Gallery
November 21 – December 18, 2019
Curated by:
Opening night performance of Reverence by Brendan Fernandes- November 21, 2019. 7:00pm
Reverence is a performance by Brendan Fernandes that intervenes at cultural events and in public spaces where the dynamic of watching and being watched take place. Breaking the fourth wall and leveling the performer and the viewer, the work invites the tension and awkwardness of gratitude into the audience's space by subjecting them to a corps of dancers bowing in procession. The work incorporates this gesture repetitively to question its relation to class, privilege and hegemony.
Aganetha Dyck, born 1937, is an acclaimed artist known internationally for her collaborations with live honeybees and her transformation of domestic objects and processes. Since the late seventies, her work has been shown in solo and group exhibitions across Canada, in the U.S., England, France and in the Netherlands and is held in collections of major galleries including The Vancouver Art Gallery, The Winnipeg Art Gallery and The National Gallery of Canada. A selection of awards include The Manitoba Arts Council Award of Distinction (2007), Canada’s Gorvernor General’s Award for Visual and Media Arts (2007). Winnipeg Art City’s Award (2013). Winnipeg Arts Council’s Making a Mark Award (2014).


