Or Gallery

To Dec 13 Fireline Kinship by Taylor Baptiste of the Osoyoos Indian Band, and Syilx Okanagan Nation, is an exhibition that considers the deep interconnection between land, body, memory and visual language. Prompted by the urgent pressures of climate catastrophe and the 2021 Nk’Mip Wildfire, Baptiste has cultivated a visual response that reflects on the devastation of fire and its role as a natural force of renewal and transformation. Drawing from Syilx storytelling, ceremony, and ways of knowing. The show considers how future landscapes, dreams, and teachings are intimately tied to the territory itself. The artworks in the exhibition honour the firefighters who risk their lives to protect homes, people, and the land–a courageous role of critical importance.