How can I know you?

Art Gallery of Burlington
January 19 - April 28, 2024

Artists: KC Adams, Panya Clark Espinal, Melissa General, Dana Prieto, Krista Belle Stewart
Curator Suzanne Morrissette + Curatorial Assistant Shalaka Jadhav

Using materials sourced from the earth, artists in How can I know you? work to share site-specific knowledge about kinship and generational knowledge, industry and settlement, social and political histories tied to settler nationalism and institutions, and about Indigenous territories in dialogue with one another.

How can I know you? is a question which comes from a comment that artist Panya Clark Espinal had shared during a studio visit with curator Suzanne Morrissette. It is a question that Clark Espinal asks of her materials, both as a way of coming to know them, as well as coming to know people, place, and history through the act of engaging with materials. It is a question that supposes the liveliness and agency of these materials and their capacity to share and convey knowledge.