Jo Daisy-Gowan

Jo Daisy-Gowan is an interdisciplinary visual artist living, creating, and playing on the unceded territories of the Lək̓ʷəŋən peoples, also known as Victoria, BC. Jo is completing their BFA in Visual Arts at the University of Victoria. Primarily working within the realms of painting, photography, writing, and the physical/conceptual spaces where those mediums intersect, Jo’s praxis focuses on interpersonal and community-oriented care, intimacy, grief, and liberation, and is not separable from her experiences as a queer and neurodivergent individual. Jo has exhibited at Sweetpea Gallery, the University of Victoria, The Kawartha Gallery, and The Orillia Museum of Art and History.

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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