As In a Body

As In a Body.
Whess Harman, Kwiigay iiwaans, Sydney Pascal, and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun.
Co-curated by Katrina Orlowski and Vance Wright.

Opening Thursday, April 23 from 6pm to 8pm.
April 23 - May 30, 2026.

As In a Body brings together work by Urban Indigenous artists Whess Harman, Kwiigay iiwaans, Sydney Pascal, and Eliot White-Hill, Kwulasultun, exploring their communities, connections to land, sustenance, and other embodied experiences, spanning sound, drawing, sculpture, film and installation. Sweating together in a mosh pit as joyous refusal, negotiating language pronunciation with a vocalizer, conjuring home while holding the grief of environmental collapse, reclaiming cultural knowledge via repurposed pizza boxes; the works in this show are a rousing response to the complexities of living in this time and place together.

In conjunction with Somewhere We Have Travelled, an exhibition celebrating the centennial anniversary of Emily Carr University of Art + Design (ECU) as well as the long history of Indigenous students attending the school, grunt gallery presents this group show of four Indigenous artists who have connections to both ECU and our gallery.