“metsänpeitto”
solo exhibition; November 3- December 2, 2023
Gallery 881, Vancouver, British Columbia
metsänpeitto solo exhibition at Gallery 881, Vancouver, BC November 4- December 2, 2023
soundscape collaboration with de_vinchee, 2023 for metsänpeitto exhibition
Title: Video Installation, Sointula series (2023) Medium: Digital Video, 1080p 4.18 GB Title: Wave, Sointula series (2023) Medium: inkjet print on vinyl
Title: Alder I, II, Sointula series (2023) Medium: Archival pigment print, mounted on charred wood box Dimensions: 16 x 24 inches
Title: metsänpeitto, Sointula series (2023) Medium: Archival Pigment Print mounted on charred wood box Dimensions: 15" x 17" and 43.5"x65” Editions: Variable 3
Title: Sointula Performance series I, II, III, IV (2023) Medium: Archival Pigment Print mounted on charred wood box Dimensions: 29” x 43.5” (variable depth)
Title: THGH, Sointula series (2023) Medium: Archival Pigment Print mounted on charred wood box Dimensions: 24” x 36” Title: Rocks, Sointula series (2023) Medium: inkjet print on vinyl
Title: Wave Installation, Sointula series (2023) Medium: Archival Pigment Fabric Panels (dye sublimation) on textile and sea glass. Dimensions: 60"x90” (each textile)
metsänpeitto
“I live in the continuous rehearsal of labels I have heard since childhood: ‘Your thighs are the Finnish part of you.’” – Richelle Greabeiel
metsänpeitto is a word from Finnish folklore that can be translated as “to be covered in forest” and as “a state of being where a familiar forest becomes unrecognizable.” Greabeiel’s metsänpeitto explores photography as a site to inhabit and potentially undo (family) myths through performance.
The photo-based works exhibited in the show were executed during Greabeiel’s stay at the Art Shed residency (January 2023) in Sointula, BC. Originally founded in 1901 by socialist Finnish settlers, Sointula is located on the unceded, traditional and ancestral Kwakwaka’wakw territory of the ‘Namgis, Mamalilikala, and Kwakiutl Nations, also known by the colonial name Malcolm Island.
Curated by Alejandro A. Barbosa
untitled, dye sublimation on textiles with altered sea glass (wave installation)
untitled, video & sound installation