Juliana Sech

Juliana Sech is a queer interdisciplinary artist, where a works concept informs the medium chosen. She has experience in textile, drawing, painting, yet primarily gravitates to sculpture, video, photography, performance, and installation. Where performance intersects with video, photography is used to document life & humans as is, and installation informs sculpture where objects relationally communicate with intention. She lives, and works on the unceded lands of Lekwungen-speaking peoples; those of the Songhees, Esquimalt and W̱SÁNEĆ nations. In 2023, she graduated from the University of Victoria with a BFA in Honors of Visual Art and minor in Psychology. Juliana has exhibited, published and screened their work for Ministry of Casual Living, Sweetpea Gallery, Resonance Collective, UVic’s Audain Gallery, The Layaway, THE SHOW, and This Side of West. She has curated & co-curated multidisciplinary art exhibitions including Soft Spit, Liquid Prism, fluid, Killjoys, and been the Art Director for Sexpo in 2022 & 2023. Recently, they showcased a solo exhibition, “to those found, in mirrored hearts”, with the fifty fifty arts collective.

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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