PLATFORM centre, in collaboration with WNDX, is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Jeneen Frei Njootli (YT). Titled small mounds of flesh form, the show runs from 04 September – 16 October, 2020.  Exhibition text written by Niki Little. There will be a virtual Q&A between Jeneen Frei Njootli and Niki Little on Thursday 24 September at 7 PM. Watch the talk here. An opening reception on will be held at PLATFORM on 04 September from 7-9 PM. Both events are free and open to the public.

Please note, 10 people will be allowed in the gallery at one time during opening receptions. Be prepared to wait outside the building if space is not immediately available upon your arrival. There will be no food & drinks at receptions until otherwise noted. When visiting us PLATFORM asks you wear a mask, maintain social distancing and to stay home if you are feeling sick. PLATFORM is an accessible venue. Please visit our website for more information.

EXHIBITION | Friday 04 September – 16 October 2020
EXHIBITION OPENING | Friday 04 September from 7-9 PM
IN CONVERSATION | Thursday 24 September at 7 PM

Jeneen Frei Njootli’s exhibition small mounds of flesh form is a new video and installation work that sees the artist perform for the land. This work considers the artist’s relationship with the land, reciprocity/relationality, contagions, colonial-induced climate change and collectives.

“We paid for the berries with our blood. Torches have to be lit on certain hunts. They witnessed the graves being dug. They seen the kiss on the mountain. The nets being checked. The fish getting smoked. They keep the caribou moving. There’s romanticizing land-based pedagogy and then there’s getting chewed right up in clothes you’ve been wearing for three days and not minding it. Tiny mounds form on my skin as I walk through the tussocks.” – Jeneen Frei Njootli

BIOGRAPHY

Jeneen Frei Njootli is a 2SQ Vuntut Gwitchin artist working in performance, sound, textiles, images, collaboration, workshops and feral scholarship. They are now living in the ancestral, unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples and teaching at UBC. If you are interested in learning more about Jeneen’s work, please check out my auntie bought all her skidoos with beadmoney, available through the Contemporary Art Gallery (Vancouver) bookstore.

IMAGE: from small mounds of flesh form by Jeneen Frei Njootli