Troubling Times: Traces, Portals and Groundings
Troubling Times: Traces, Portals and Groundings includes the work of Peter Morin, Nicole Neidhardt and Justine Woods. Their works reflect a commitment to deeply relational knowledges between people and territories that manifest in world making creative responses. These artists were featured speakers at the 2025 Indigenous Art Intensive.
Troubling Times: Traces, Portals and Groundings
May 28 to August 16, 2025, FINA Gallery
Opening Reception: Wednesday, May 28, 5-7pm
Gallery Hours: Weekdays, 9am to 4pm; Saturdays 12 to 2pm.
Performance by Peter Morin: Tuesday, May 27, 11am-4pm
In this exhibition, a basket is a container for knowledge, made from futuristic silver reflective mylar in Nicole Neidhardt’s work. This vessel’s coils can become a portal between the networked land and us. A three-channel video installation by Peter Morin traces a single line in the skin over and through becoming an embodied trail connecting ancestors and bodies of rivers and time. While in Justin Wood’s work a still image is a record of time spent with and on the land imbued with careful garments designed to honour and harvest.
TROUBLING TIMES: TRACES, PORTALS AND GROUNDINGS EXHIBITION BROCHURE
Trouble starts before it begins
essay by Jay Irizawa
In Troubling Times: Traces, Portals and Groundings, the space between the interconnections of ancestral knowledge/s brought together by these artists are vast and intimately close. Not as a dichotomy of space. Not as an indeterminacy of life and death. Rather, a continuum of relations made possible through dreaming. Not in the manifest way of manufactured futures, no; dreaming comes with an understanding of being, of openness and responsibility, a network of divergent paths from multiple universes, in willingness to change. Each of these worlds that come to exist with each other in the gallery space demonstrate how divergent cataclysmic forces can build rather than negate energies, as Trouble comes in the seeds originating from stars of distant universes. Trouble Makers make belonging in space to share knowledge/s in complementarity, t/here, always.
