the currents that carry us

Curated by Roxanne Fernandes and supported by RBC Foundation, the currents that carry us is a new exhibition catalogue published by the Confederation Centre Art Gallery. It features works by Alex Antle, Carley Mullally, Emily Shaw, Jordan Beaulieu, Morgan Possberg Denne, Natalie Michelle Goulet, Nicole Rampersaud, and Somnia Lucent—eight emerging artists with origins or long-standing relationships to the provinces of Atlantic Canada. 

Bilingual and colourful, the currents that carry us pursues storytelling that isn’t rooted in written or spoken word. The artists take the expectations of the medium and they twist it—building new and experimental ways of storytelling which match the variable ways people remember place: through smell, touch, sound, and sight. The catalogue is a contemporary and interdisciplinary take on storytelling explored through such material manipulation. Ultimately, these stories converge around what the provinces share: the water that flows around the land and what it takes away, leaves, and teaches.