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August Newsletter -

August Newsletter Project Running until August 31, 2024 / Wed–Sat / 12–6⁠ ⁠Reception and Programming Details Below!  As Gallery Gachet anticipates its upcoming renovation, we invite you to a project drawing from our archives. The works presented range from mediums including photography, silk screen printing...

XINEMA and Gallery Gachet are proud to present 𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝘼𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙛𝙖𝙘𝙩, a two-part screening of experimental films by local and international artists. These reflective works flow between fragments of memory across individual and collective landscapes, forming new frameworks for reconciling identity, embodiment, and place.⁣
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SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 7:30PM⁣
VIFF CENTRE // ’s VANCITY THEATRE⁣
1181 SEYMOUR STREET⁣
Tickets: https://viff.org/whats-on/xinema-home-artifact/
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Collectively entitled 𝘛𝘰 𝘔𝘢𝘱 𝘈𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘉𝘦𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨, part one showcases works by a cohort of local artists: Kaila Bhullar, Luis Andrés Serrano, Monica Cheema and Ogheneofegor Obuwoma. Drawing from their individual experiences, the artists consider the intersections of personal and communal, and respond to Gallery Gachet’s positionality within the Downtown Eastside.⁣
This shorts programme will conclude with a Q&A with the filmmakers from part one, and will be followed by a 15 minute intermission before part two. The four works will launch Gallery Gachet’s community screen following this inaugural presentation.⁣
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Curated by XINEMA, part two responds to the work of Gallery Gachet’s cohort, and features three experimental works. Filmmakers Nada El-Omari, Martin Molina Gola, and Rhayne Vermette and combine uniquely manipulated analogue, digital, and archival images into rites of remembering; codices for (re)discovering personal histories, identities, and sites of becoming.⁣
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PART ONE:⁣
• 𝘏𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘥𝘺 (2024) Luis Andrés Serrano // 9 min⁣
• 𝘨𝘦𝘰𝘨𝘳𝘢𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘪𝘯𝘨 (2024) Ogheneofegor Obuwoma // 6 min⁣
• 𝘉𝘪𝘳𝘵𝘩, 𝘋𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘩 + 𝘌𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 (2024) Kaila Bhullar // .www 6 min⁣
• 𝘓𝘦𝘵 𝘜𝘴 𝘛𝘳𝘺 𝘈𝘨𝘢𝘪𝘯 (𝘈𝘰 𝘗𝘩𝘪𝘳 𝘒𝘰𝘴𝘩𝘪𝘴𝘩 𝘒𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘺𝘦) (2024) Monica Cheema // 6 min⁣
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Part one duration: 27 min⁣

Q&A followed by 15 min Intermission
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PART TWO:⁣
• 𝘠𝘈𝘎𝘌́ (2024) Martín Molina Gola // 14 min⁣
• 𝘠𝘢𝘧𝘧𝘢 (2019) Nada El-Omari // 8 min⁣
• 𝘓𝘦𝘴 𝘊𝘩𝘢̂𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘦 𝘓𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘴 (2016) Rhayne Vermette // 18 min⁣
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Part two duration: 40 min

Upcoming events! Curator's Tour (May 11) and Talk with Ann Livingston, a founding member of VANDU (May 18)⁠
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Tour: Join Director/Curator Olumoroti George on May 11, 2-3pm, for a tour of our current exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU).⁠
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Talk: Ann Livingston, a founding member of VANDU, and curator Olumoroti George will be in conversation at Gachet on May 18, from 5-6pm. Topics include collections practices of the VANDU archive, oral history, as well as Livingston's current organizing focus.⁠
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To Be Belligerent//To Commit To Memory//To Live Without Fear: 25 Years of VANDU continues until May 31, 2024, and the gallery is open Tuesdays–Saturdays, 12–6pm⁠.⁠
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Image: Ann Livingston, Victoria. Courtesy of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users Archive⁠
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The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU)⁠
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Free Reception April 11, 7-9PM⁠
Exhibition Running April 4 to April 30, 2024 / Tue–Sat / 12–6⁠
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To Be Belligerent//To Commit To Memory//To Live Without Fear is an exhibition marking the 25th anniversary of the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users (VANDU), featuring images and ephemera from the organization’s archive. Since its inception, VANDU has acted as one of the pillars of the Downtown Eastside (DTES) community and has fastidiously advocated for the rights and freedoms of all drug users.⁠
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The collective has contributed its resources and member-power to engaging with local and global issues pertaining to drug user advocacy and houselessness, best exemplified in its contributions to the battle for safe supply and safe injection sites in the DTES; its advocation ag*inst prejudice in public policy and government neglect of the residents of the DTES; its harm reduction and community building efforts; and its guerrilla activism and organizing ag*inst the decampment, dispossession, and dehumanization of DTES residents at the hands of the state.⁠
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Image: Pablo Pincott (June 11, 1961 - July 20, 2023), longtime member of the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society and Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and survivor of the Winters Fire holding up a banner and middle finger during a march in the Downtown Eastside for International Overdose Awareness Day on August 31, 2022. Rest in power Pablo.⁠
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The exhibition is part of the Capture Photography Festival. Gallery Gachet thanks the British Columbia Arts Council, Canada Council for the Arts, and the City of Vancouver for support.⁠
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Thursday, 7-9pm! Please join us for our reception for A Canoe is an Island featuring Lydia Brown, Simon Grefiel, davi de jesus do nascimento, Valérie d. Walker, and Speplól Tanya Zilinski

A Canoe is an Island is a group exhibition of photographs, tapestries, cotton scrolls, sculptures, and a canoe that explores the multifaceted concept of “Vessel". Defined as a craft for traveling on water, a container for holding something, and a person into whom some quality is infused, “the vessel” is utilized as a unifying idiom to describe the multiplicity of experiences, realities and relationships that bodies of colour situated in a post-colonial world have with bodies of water and formation of place.

Image 1: Valérie d. Walker, installation view, A Canoe is an Island, Gallery Gachet, 2023. Image 2: Valérie d. Walker, Within Mami Wata’s Embrace (detail), 2018-2024. Comprised of two parts. Part one: Awaiting Mami Wata’s Embrace, 2022–24, silk, natural bio-friendly fermented indigo, archival ink jet print, golden safety pins, indigo-dyed wooden dowel. Part two: Oceans Will Provide a Home, 2018–2024, hand-shaped resist, natural bio-friendly fermented indigo, global organic textile standard cotton. 160 x 100 x 30 in.

Book Launch: 16th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show
February 15, 2024, 7–9pm at Gallery Gachet, taking place alongside our exhibition reception for A Canoe is an Island.

Join us as we celebrate the culmination of this endeavour and honour voices, stories, and experiences from the Downtown Eastside.

The catalogue features an array of compelling works from both exhibiting artists and contributors from within the DTES community. The publication not only showcases artistic expression but also delves into the critical issues facing the DTES community. Here is a glimpse of what you can expect to find within its pages:

Welcome by Mary Point
Preface by Demi London and Olumoroti George
The 16th Annual Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show contributions by 56 local artists
Conversation About the Budzey Project with Raven-Wing Lorelai Hawkins, Manuel Axel Strain & Luca Cara Seccafien
The Users’ Code by Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users
Threads of Resistance Within Our Shared Tapestry by Ruby Smith Díaz & Yarrow Society
Learn Your ABC’s: Defund the VPD (Excerpt) by Erika Masuskapoe & Meenakshi Mannoe
Stop the Sweeps by Ryan Sudd

Featured Artists:
Kara Ashkewe, Daniel Batkin, Nicole Baxter, Xavier Breaker, Elaine Briere, Cameron Carr, Grace Chan, Rosa Chan, Tilly Charlie, Eva Cho, Kate Cowell, Randy Crossan, Frederick Cummings, Nicole DesRosiers, James Lee Diamond, Ruby Smith Díaz, Angel Gaeta, Wendy Gaspard, Zaagaasiye Giizis, Debbie Gleason, Tommy Goose, Isaiah Harewood, Lorelei Hawkins, Marek Hirny, Gary Humchitt, Joanna Huo, Lily Huo, Alger Ji-Liang, Parker Johnson, Richard E. Kobzey, Carol Larson, Gladys Lee, Gisele Lemire, May Li, Bonnie Low, Chris Mackenzie, Meenakshi Mannoe, Erika Masuskapoe, Mike McNeeley, Leperd Cloz Mpus, Michael Edward Nardachioni, Roberta Naziel, Teresa Ng, Dustin Paul, James Paul, Rudolf Penner, Lezlie Prutton, Dale Ranville, Edgar Rossetti, Misha Sample, Ryan Smith, Ryan Sudd, Amber Trook, Lawrence Tung, Priscillia Mays Tait, Richard Vanderwal, Bruce Walther, Jin Ying (Mimi) Wang, Jin Wang (Jasper), Yigi Yang, Swallow YP Zhou, Tonia Jo Zinger

A Canoe is an Island: Lydia Brown, Simon Grefiel, davi de jesus do nascimento, Valérie d. Walker, & Speplól Tanya Zilinski

February 2–March 22, 2024 / Tue–Sat / 12–6pm⁠
Upcoming Reception: February 15, 7pm–9pm
Curator’s Tour: February 24, 2pm

Ves.sel
/ˈves(ə)l/

i. A craft for travelling on water.
ii. A container (such as a cask, bottle, cup or bowl) for holding something.
iii. A person into whom some quality is infused.

Emerging from an integration, re-codification and embrace of the diverse and nuanced definitions associated with the singular term “Vessel,” A Canoe is an Island articulates how the concept of “the vessel” could be utilized as a unifying idiom to describe the multiplicity of experiences, realities and relationships that bodies of colour situated in a post-colonial world have with bodies of water and formation of place.

A Canoe is an Island: Lydia Browne, Simon Grefiel, davi de jesus do nascimento, Valérie Walker, & Speplól Tanya Zilinski⁠
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Free Reception February 15, 7pm–9pm⁠
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February 2–March 22, 2024 / Tue–Sat / 12–6pm⁠
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A Canoe is an Island is a group exhibition of photographs, tapestries, cotton scrolls, sculptures, and a canoe that explores the multifaceted concept of “Vessel". Defined as a craft for traveling on water, a container for holding something, and a person into whom some quality is infused, “the vessel” is utilized as a unifying idiom to describe the multiplicity of experiences, realities and relationships that bodies of colour situated in a post-colonial world have with bodies of water and formation of place. ⁠
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Addressing topics such as maritime violence, colonization, migration, and folklore, the exhibition, curated by Olumoroti Soji-George, transcends individual narratives, showcasing how the Vessel becomes an object, person, condition, and gesticulation of necessity. Inspired by the Hawaiian adage "He wa'a he moku, he moku he wa’a", which translates to "a canoe is an island, an island is a canoe", the exhibition ties the vessel to the voyage and place, speculating that bodies in the post-colonial condition are vessels seeking to make sense of their realities, recover lost knowledge, intervene in histories, and foster new relations with place.⁠
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Image: davi de jesus do nascimento, vestidura de enxágue, digital photograph, 2023. Text is overlaid, with exhibition details and gallery contact info available through the link in our bio.

Gallery Gachet will be open during exhibiting hours of 12-6pm, Tuesday-Saturday for those in need of refuge from the cold.

We have resources to free clothing providers and shelters within the vicinity of Gachet along with winter clothing, warm drinks, snacks, hand warmers and Naloxone kits available.

If you are stopping by to check out the last few days of Dion Smith-Dokkie's exhibition, feel free to bring unneeded warm clothes to add to our ongoing winter clothing supply.

'Water is one of the more substantial recurring themes in the exhibit, featuring prominently in the maps themselves, and in the fluidity of the acrylic resin that suffuses some of the works. Smith-Dokkie says part of the focus on water came to mind because of how integral and contentious water has been in his region.'

Dion Smith-Dokkie at Gallery Gachet: Diving deep into maps and their meaning Pieces from Dion Smith-Dokkie’s exhibit at Gachet Gallery.| Photo by Sol Hashemi Gallery Gachet hosts an exhibit from Vancouver-based artist Dion Smith-Dokkie that investigates maps and their…

The third episode of See How We Run! is out now 🏃‍♂️

On this episode, we’re joined by Gallery Gachet’s executive Director Demi London and artistic director Moroti George.

They talk about the evolution of Gachet’s approach to supporting artistic creation and exhibition, in ways that are accessible to and supportive of people facing systemic barriers and social marginalization.We speak about the ways the gallery’s programming and operations changed over time in response to shifts in funding, space and the needs of the community, and we discuss their personal entry points into their work at the gallery.

Tune in: https://bit.ly/3GtwVYn

Join us Saturday, November 4th at 3:30pm, at the Carnegie Community Centre for a screening of Stop the Sweeps, followed by a townhall moderated by the Stop the Sweeps team. The film is presented by Gallery Gachet in partnership with the DTES Heart of the City Festival which starts today and runs until November 5.
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Stop the Sweeps is a documentary by Ryan Sudds, a Vancouver-based filmmaker and organizer that chronicles the violent decampments of unhoused people in the DTES, and subsequent community resistance ag*inst the ongoing state-sanctioned violence and neglect. Stop the Sweeps acts as a vital document and catalyst for dialogue on acts of dispossession in our community.⁠
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Access information: Elevator access is available. Ramp access to Carnegie is through the patio on the east side of the building. There is a call button to activate the patio gate on the left side of the patio entrance. Washrooms that are Wheelchair-accessible are on the main level and third floor.

On Friday, October 20th, Gallery Gachet will be closed as a small gesture of solidarity between the staff of the gallery, the plight of the Palestinian people and, in general, cognition of the gallery's positionality in the Downtown Eastside - an area that embodies the harsh after-effects of colonial violence on individual lives and landscapes.

The staff of Gallery Gachet wish to indicate our solidarity with Palestine by joining the cohort of voices asking for a ceasefire in Gaza. As a gallery located in the heart of the DTES with a mandate to fastidiously support dialogue and cultural production that emerges from bodies residing on the margins of our societal status quo and its imagination, it is the gallery's primary intention to stand in unanimity with the dispossessed, the dehumanized and the disenfranchised.

The gallery firmly opposes all forms of neo-imperialist expansion, colonial oppression, social stigma and anti-Arab, anti-Muslim, and anti-Semitic violence. As such, the gallery wishes to indicate that although this conflict is being posed as religious discord, the unfortunate reality is that this decades-long conflict is rooted in colonial expansion that rarely considers religious and individual differences as it wreaks havoc and pain on all involved parties.

The gallery encourages our patrons and institutional supporters to join the strike and other means of organizing ag*inst colonial dispossession and engage with educational resources pertaining to the long, cruel losses the Palestinian people have incurred on their lands.

The 16th Annual Oppenheimer Community Art Show
Running September 29, 2023 to November 10, 2023
Visit us from Tuesdays to Saturdays, noon to 6pm.

The Oppenheimer Park Community Art Show features artwork and insight of artists and community leaders connected to or displaced from Oppenheimer Park, the green space known as Lek'lekí, the Powell Street Grounds, Paureu g*i, the backyard of the Downtown Eastside; the unceded land of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish) and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. For some artists, participating in the show is an annual tradition, while others are contributing for the first time.

Join us in supporting VANDU's fundraiser, as they mark an incredible 25 years of dedicated activism.

VANDU 25 Year Anniversary Fund, organized by VAN DU The Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users celebrates 25 years of democratically-led drug user or… VAN DU needs your support for VANDU 25 Year Anniversary Fund

Gallery Gachet is excited to announce the recruitment of Board Members!

BOARD MEMBER POSITION DESCRIPTION /

Gallery Gachet’s board provides governance to our non-profit organization. Gachet is committed to organizational reflection and enhancing community engagement, and our dedicated Board Members support the greater sustainability and operations by strengthening our governance process. Board Members attend monthly Board Meetings, develop the strategic direction of the organization with management and staff, approve policies and procedures, review relevant documents and provide advice as necessary, and help guide the creation and implementation of future committees and membership.

Board Members are elected for a two-year term that is renewable to a maximum of four years. The time commitment may fluctuate throughout the year, but is anticipated to be approximately 4 hours a month.

Gachet is proud to offer a Board Support Policy to assist with resources for access needs, professional development opportunities, and regular workshop offerings for Staff and Board to learn together.

Please visit gachet.org for more information.

Deadline: September 8, 2023.

Drop-In Studio Time
with Juli Majer
Monday / June 26 / 2pm - 4pm
at Gallery Gachet / 9 W Hastings Street

Current exhibiting artist Juli Majer will support attendees in creating artwork. This workshop is free and community members are invited to drop-in at their leisure.

Materials available for participants include pastels, acrylic paint,
brushes, felt pens, paper, and canvases (depending on availability).

Final week to view our current exhibitions, “ Dialectics of Fugitivity,” featuring works by Abdulwasiu Salimat and Simone Chnarakis, and “A Bag Full Of Acorns, A Bag Full Of Ashes,” featuring works by Long Xi Vlessing.

Please join us at 3 pm on Friday, May 19th, for a tour of the exhibitions with Artistic Director, Olumoroti George, presented in collaboration with .

Gachet is now a drop off location for cellphone drive! Checkout PHONE PLAN highlight for more info. 

We are accepting used cellphones for femmes living outside in the Downtown Eastside.

Each unlocked phone will be activated for just $35 in donations! Go to for more locations and details on how to donate funds or phones!

STEP 1 // UNLOCK AND FACTORY RESET YOUR PHONE

STEP 2 // TRY TO INCLUDE THE CASE AND CHARGER

STEP 3 // DROP THEM OFF WHERE YOU SEE THIS SIGN

STEP 4 // DROP THEM AT THE LOCATIONS ON INSTAGRAM

STEP 5 // CONSIDER DONATING FUNDS TO ACTIVATE THEM

STEP 6 // FOLLOW FOR MORE WAYS TO HELP

STEP 7 // TAKE A PIC OF THIS POSTER FOR LATER!

Current drop off locations are:

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Gachet is honoured to have hosted space for the families, loved ones, and all who witnessed and held the stories shared of those lost to police violence. We wish the families strength and moments of healing in the fight for justice. 🦅❤️

The following is shared by community members in relation to the Honour Their Names exhibition.

(This is the story behind the blanket-style banner. This blanket is not ceremonial or traditional and will never enter a feast hall. It is a mourning blanket.)

Omen

Just before July 8, 2022 the 1st anniversary of the heinous murder of Jared Lowndes, friends, supporters and family members began their journey to the place where rcmkkkops created an unnecessary situation in a tim horton’s parking lot, opened fire on Jared and he took his last breaths. 

The family members of Jared carried almost 100 black roses memorializing the names of Indigenous People shot and killed by law enforcement in kkkanada. 

On their way, a family member wished for a sign that everything would be okay and people could come and go without being shot by the rcmkkkops. they were after all once ag*in travelling the last highway that Jared had driven. 

On their drive they rounded a corner and crested a hill, below the treeline right above the highway an eagle appeared. In its talons it clutched a snake for all to see. 

This was the sign that “everyone would be okay.” the eagle represented love and wisdom, the snake represented the killers on July 8, 2021.

The eagle carried away the snake, we can only imagine the snake’s demise at the end of the flight.

In their grief, love and rage have consumed the family and friends of Jay (Jared Lowndes), but they know love will carry them through this journey. 

Love Wins.

*A note that this blanket was imperfectly made by Thirteen Twelve.

CLOSURE SATURDAY / APRIL 15

Gallery Gachet will be closed due to our annual board retreat occurring tomorrow, Saturday / April 15.
 
There are still limited edition postcards from current exhibiting artists available for free. Visit us next week during open hours to get yourself a postcard while supplies last!

Dialectics of Fugitivity
April 7, 2023 to May 20, 2023. 
Abdulwasiu Salimat and Simone Chnarakis

     Emerging from a conceptual framework that centres bell hook's postulations of the oppositional gaze and Tina Campt's hypothesis on the registers of refusal in the image, artists Abdulwasiu Salimat and Simone Chnarakis invoke dialogue on the current and future state of Blackness from the perspectives of bodies living in a world haunted by the effects of colonization.
     In Dialectics of Fugitivity, Salimat's and Chnarakis' images visualize divergent tactics of refusal utilized by colonized bodies in the construction of post-colonial identities.
     Salimat's surreal photographs vision a reality for Nigerian women suspended in time and history; these images pose the Nigerian women in the frame as liberated and mystical beings free to roam and shape the world around them without the presence of an ever-pervasive white gaze.
     Alternatively, Chnarakis' work features everyday images of the people and the landscape of post-colonial Jamaica. These quotidian images of Jamaican subjects and landscapes speak to the realities of present-day Jamaica and the strong communal spirit and individual agency that exists amongst the Jamaican people despite their turbulent history.
     Combined, Salimat's and Chnarakis' individual practices invoke the themes of the Black female gaze, perspectivism, world-building, queerness, Black futurity outside our current reality, communal bonds, individual identity vs communal identity, nationhood, refusal and longing.
     These images ask viewers to discern the registers of refusal in the frame and contemplate the effects of colonization on the minds, bodies and lands dispossessed by European colonists.

✅Click the link in our bio for full artist information and more!

A Bag Full of Acorns, A Bag Full of Ashes
April 7, 2023 to May 20, 2023.
Long Xi Vlessing

In an increasingly public social milieu, photographs realize the voyeuristic possibility of being seen having a private moment in a public world. Suspending both fleeting strangers and near acquaintances in jarring light and colour, Vlessing's photographs depict abrupt subjects in revelatory moments— in the throes of primal fear, contending with social upheaval, or perhaps in mere moments of contemplation, awkwardness, or acorn-collecting. 
With these photographs in particular imagining privileged subjects, laconic text and title offer binary interpretations, mirroring a privileged gaze and leaning on imagination rather than critical vision. As such, these works question the anecdotal validity of narrative photography by obscuring the definite reality of those pictured while illuminating on outward expression, probing from an alien perspective that threatens to disrupt anxious interior worlds.
With these narrative interventions, Vlessing's photographs marry humanity and satire while teasing at the politics of the everyday, entering the photographs into a web of social relations and inviting us to consider how chance moments can be written as staged fakes: emotions as mere simulacra in the visual field, and the body as a sign in circulation.

About the Artist
Long Xi Vlessing (b. 2000) is a photographer, filmmaker and visual artist born and raised in Vancouver and living in Montréal. He has a Bachelor of Arts with a Specialization in Communication Studies from Concordia University. His recent work includes a photographic collaboration with New York University and Concordia University as part of the Orphan Film Symposium, and a short film, Blanket Song, which is an official selection at the Seattle Asian American Film Festival and the Vancouver Chinese Film Festival. His photographic work has entered into the online collection of the Emily Carr University of Art and Design’s library as part of the British Columbia Quarantine Qapsule.

✅Click the link in our bio for more info!

Gachet is honoured to have held space for all the families and speakers affected by police violence to share their truth. To all speakers, we wish you strength and moments of comfort amidst the grief and pain of loss 💜

On December 1, 2022, the Independent Investigations Office (IIO) of BC determined that there were reasonable grounds to believe that at least three of the RCMP officers complicit in the death of Jared Lowndes (Wet’suwet’en, Laksilyu Clan) may have committed several offences in relation to various uses of force. The IIO charge recommendations came a year and a half after Jared Lowndes's death. At this moment, during the second annual exhibition of Honour their Names at Gallery Gachet, the RCMP officers responsible for the death of Jared Lowndes still work for the RCMP, live their lives and walk freely, while justice for Jared Lowndes remains subject to contest. In contrast, a mother has lost her child, a child has lost their father, and a community has lost one of their peoples.

Although the IIO has provided their recommendations in the Jared Lowndes case, the battle for justice continues, as detailed in the demands: 

* No more police murders
* The police must be disarmed
* Bodycams should always be turned on
* End the use and abuse of police dogs
* A transformation of the IIO to include more Indigenous oversight and exclude ex-cops
* No more recruitment and paid training for RCMP or police forces. 

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Honour Their Names opens on Wednesday at 11 AM to mark International Day Ag*inst Police Brutality.

The exhibition and workshops will take place at  (9 W Hastings)
-link to venue access info in bio.

Here's the full program schedule for the exhibit:

Wednesday March 15, 11 AM
Opening - Feast - Speakers (livestreamed to  facebook).

Thursday March 16, 2-4 PM
Panel: Systemic Responses to Police Murder (livestreamed to  facebook).

Friday March 17, 2-4 PM
Defund 604 Network presents an overview of the IIO (Independent Investigations Office).

Friday March 17, 6-8 PM
Living Freedom: Immersive Soundscape Featuring Ruby Smith Díaz .

Saturday March 18, 2-4 PM
These Zines are Cop Free! Youth art workshop presented by Tonye Aganaba and .

Friday March 24, 6-8 PM
Closing night & community jam.

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Honour Their Names opens on March 15 - *instPoliceBrutality!

🔥 Opens Wednesday March 15, 11 AM
📆 Show closes on Friday March 24
📍 Gallery Gachet, 9 W Hastings

Presented by with support from the BC Civil Liberties Association, , Defund 604 Network, , , Justice for Julian Jones , , , , , , Tracking (In)justice, & . Digital art piece by .

Stay tuned for more details about the opening & workshops taking place. Link in bio with event info & Gallery Gachet accessibility info.

Image ID: Text: “Justice for Jared Presents Honour Their Names & International Day Ag*inst Police Bruality. Show opens Wed. March 15 at 11 AM. Gallery Gachet, 9 W Hastings. Exhibit Hours: Tues-Sat 12-16 PM. Show closes Friday March 24. Opening & Closing Feast. Workshops. Speakers. Soundscape. This event is organized on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations. Exhibit & Organizing work supported by: BC Civil Liberties Association, Coalition of Peers Dismantling the Drug War, Defund 604 Network, Gallery Gachet, Justice for Anthony Aust, Justice for Julian Jones, 221A, Masks 4 East Van, Pivot Legal Society, Regis Forever Foundation, Tierra Negra Arts, Tracking Injustice, VINES Art Festival, VIVO Media Arts Centre.” Bottom of the image features logos for each organization. Background image: Justice for Jared Logo superimposed on an eye looking upwards. Image is composed of bold, bright red images, with black and white text.

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