Shall Inherit: David Curtis (Until February 25)

This event took place on Thursday, February 10, 2022 at 12:01 amYukon Arts Centre

ALFF Media Art Exhibition

Shall Inherit: David Curtis

Video and multi-media 3D sculptures

Video: 14 minutes
Yukon Arts Centre Community Gallery

Hours: 9am to 5pm Monday to Friday

David Curtis is an off-grid dwelling filmmaker, commercial fisher, carpenter and artist who has had the honour of living within the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in Traditional Territories, in Dawson City, Yukon for the past 24 years.

David weaves poetic and associative images and objects together to reflect our day-to-day experiences of chance, kairos and chaos. His art is grounded in open-ended processes that rely on the viewer’s experiences, memories and knowledge to complete the work.

“Shall Inherit” is the eighth film/ chapter in a series of projects started in 2020 in response to the outbreak and spread of the pandemic. The works are ontological reflections on evolving relationships with our immediate environment, and the non-human beings we share it with.

 

Formal and associative, aesthetic and material dialogues are the framework for this series’ explorations of the limits of language to capture the emotional intimacies and philosophical paradoxes of the lands, flora and fauna we dwell amongst.

“Shall Inherit” was conceived and created during 2021 at the Macaulay House and Jenni House Residencies, and would not be possible without the generous support of the Yukon Film Society, Yukon Arts Centre Gallery, Klondike Institute of Art and Culture, Available Light Film Festival and the Yukon Riverside Arts Festival. Thank you to all of these organizations’ funders, sponsors, volunteers and audiences.

Many thanks to Miriam Havemann, Andrew Connors, Janet Patterson, Takashi Sakurai, Guillaume Riocreux, Karen Baltgailis, Dan Sokolowski, Sol Martinez, Mary Bradshaw, Peter Menzies (IATSY), Trevor, Itszay and Eldo.

If you have any questions regarding this work please feel free to contact David at uprivercf@gmail.com and he would be happy to respond as best he can.