Eva Grant

Eva is a Francophone, Indigenous-Eurasian artist and programmer interested in land-based, time-bending works. She studied comparative literature at Stanford University. Curatorial experience spans a 2-year fellowship at the Institute for Diversity in the Arts - programming Jess X. Snow, Demian DinéYazhi’, and NoName - and seminars at Berlin’s Node Curatorial, and Madrid’s Institute for Post Natural Studies. In 2023 she co-programmed the Vancouver Queer Film Festival, while exhibiting Mechanism, her multimedia show on the history of hysteria, through the Art Gallery of Ontario’s emerging artist-in-residence program.

Eva recently completed a workshop for Indigiqueer curators led by Dr. Heather Igloliorte, Léuli Eshrāghi, and Michelle McGeough. Through the BC Arts Council and alongside curator Mel Granley she is developing an exhibit exploring BIPOC body-mod culture. She taught a transdisciplinary workshop at BlackStar Film Festival's 2024 Greaves Filmmaking Seminar

An emerging filmmaker, Eva is a Sundance Native Lab Fellow whose narrative debut Forest Echoes will premiere summer 2024. She co-wrote and produced CBC Radio 1’s adaptation of This Place as well as producing the Braden Storytelling Grant-winning experimental audio documentary, Slip/Slam. In 2022 she associate-produced the Emmy-winning Buffy Sainte-Marie doc.

About the exhibition

“The Land Wants You Back" uses film, poetry, photography, textiles, projection, analog technology, and found sculptural elements to explore the ways in which communities resist surveillance culture to safely prosper and conduct witnessing on their own terms.
Themes include, consent, ecology, privacy, reciprocity familiarity, intimacy, and radical kinship with the Land.

Featuring Rhayne Vermette, Djama Clappis, Fox Maxy, Quinne, Larsen, Jo Daisy-Gowan, Soloman Chiniquay, Juliana Sech, Aghalingiak Ohokannoak, and Eva Grant, with installation assistance from Silas Grenis, Melanie Golder, and Lesley Marshall.

Where: Atelier

When:
Sept 25: 3pm-9pm
Sept 26: 10am-9pm
Sept 27: 10am-9pm
Sept 28: 10am-12am

Exhibition tour with Eva Grant: Sept 28, 5:30 pm

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