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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><b><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 65 Medium",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Laura St. Pierre<i><span style="color:#70AD47">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 65 Medium",sans-serif;color:#70AD47;mso-ligatures:none">All That You Change Changes You</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Avenir LT Std 65 Medium",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">Central Gallery</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">September 26,
<a name="_Int_NjqTnH9S">2026</a> to January 9, 2027</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Please join us at the Kamloops Art Gallery to celebrate the opening of our fall exhibitions!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Saturday September 26</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Opening Remarks // 5:30 pm</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Exhibition Tour // 5:45 pm</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Reception // 6:30 to 8:00 pm</span><span style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">All Ages, Free
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Beginning September 26, the Kamloops Art Gallery presents Laura St. Pierre:
<i>All That You Change Changes</i> <i>You</i>. The opening night will start </span>
<span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none">with<span style="color:black"> a welcome prayer and remarks followed by an exhibition tour with curator, Crystal Mo</span>wry, and exhibiting artist, Laura St. Pierre.
After the tour, visitors are invited to join in a casual reception in the Stu<span style="color:black">dios and the Atrium with live music, an art-making area, beer sponsored by Bright Eye Brewing, and wine sponsored by Privato.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">All That You Change Changes You
</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">shines a light on Laura St. Pierre’s decade-long approach to two survivalist tropes: scavenging and sowing. Borrowing its title
from the opening lines of <i>Parable of the Sower</i> (1993), a novel by the late author, Octavia E. Butler, this exhibition brings together works made over the last decade, all produced against the backdrop of a built environment transformed by absence and
adaptation. In Butler’s dystopian novel, the narrative unfolds through the journals of a teenage protagonist who imagines a new belief system along with her new experiences. Informed by this narrative and other forms of speculative fiction, St. Pierre’s work
similarly imagines an unstable future where new models of existence emerge out of
<a name="_Int_5XB4VoZf">necessity, yet</a> remain rooted in old knowledge. </span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">This exhibition includes a revised version of
<i>Les Porteuses, </i>an installation St. Pierre created in relation to a similarly titled performance.<i>
</i>In St. Pierre’s reimagining, a procession of brave women from the future enters a pact with the devil in order to return to the 21st century in time-travelling canoes. Landing in Kamloops in 2026, they collect plant specimens from the Southern Interior
to revegetate a barren future landscape.</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Laura St. Pierre: All That You Change Changes You
</span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">is organized and circulated by the MacKenzie Art Gallery. Curated by Crystal Mowry. The MacKenzie receives ongoing support from
the South Saskatchewan Community Foundation, Canada Council for the Arts, SaskCulture, City of Regina, University of Regina, and Saskatchewan Arts Board.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Charo Neville, Curator</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">250.377.2410</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;mso-ligatures:none"><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">About the Kamloops Art Gallery<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">The Kamloops Art Gallery, established in 1978, is situated on the unceded and unsurrendered lands of the Tk’emlúps te
Secwépemc within Secwepemcúl’ecw, the traditional territory of the Secwépemc people. The largest art gallery in Secwepemcúl</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">̓</span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Avenir Next LT Pro",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">ecw
(the Interior of British Columbia), the Gallery offers national caliber art experiences through a diverse range of accessible and affordable exhibitions, talks, tours, and studio-based programming for all ages and abilities, and boasts a collection of over
3,000 works of art.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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