PLATFORM centre is thrilled to announce, reyv·payzaj | dream·scape, a solo exhibition by Red River Métis artist Robyn Adams (BC) in our Main Gallery. Please join us on 6 September at the opening reception with Adams in attendance.
EXHIBITION | 6 September - 2 November, 2024
OPENING RECEPTION | 7PM - 9PM on 6 September, 2024
READ JENNIFER SMITH'S RESPONSE HERE.
reyv·payzaj si t’ayn expozisyon personel di l’archis Michif di la Rivyayr Roj Robyn Adams. Baysi a Vancouver kom in designer d’art, Adams y l’invit li spektatewr dan in payzaj Michif imajini. Son travayl y krwayz li proses arkitekchural ipi kulchural, avek 3-D modeling, di cyanotype, ayn dokumentasyon dju klyen, di rasad floral ipi ayn ceremoni dan ayn opchik di fuchurisim Otokton. A sa bays, reyv·payzaj y plonj li spektatewr dan l’ontoloji di Michif, ofran ayn perspekchif sur l’identiti Michif ipi sa koneksyon avek la tayr.
French-Michif translation by Lorraine Coutu
dream·scape is a solo exhibition by Red River Métis artist Robyn Adams. Based in Vancouver as an architectural designer, Adams invites viewers into an envisioned Métis landscape. Her work interlaces architectural and cultural processes, featuring 3D modeling, cyanotype plant documentation, floral beadwork, and ceremony from an Indigenous futurism lens. At its core, dream·scape immerses viewers in Michif ontology offering a perspective of Métis identity and connection to the land.
BIOGRAPHY
Robyn Adams si t’in sitwayayn Michif di la Rivyayr Roj. Sa famiyl Michif y vyin di la Rochelle ipi St Pierre-Jolys, Manitoba. Akchewelmen ayn dowb Mitres di Arkitekchur ipi in Arkitekchur di paysaj a l’University di British Columbia, Y li in inviti sur li teritwayr non sidi di li xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sel̓íl̓witulh. Si t’in archis multidisiplinayr ki aym payshi, ki ramans di medikamen, beading, ipi fayr tot sort d’afayr avek si min. Robyn son ovraj s’inskri en synkronism dan l’ethos di la kaliti di vi d’Audre Lorde son “kaliti di vi”, ivo ki interof li rapor a la tayr ipi a d’lo a travayr li weaving di knowledge otokton, di l’art ipi di l’arkitekchur di seremoni. Robyn y sharsh a kryi in arkitekchur di jway powetchik, o koti di matryark ki l’on kontribuwi a kryi in senchimen d’apartenan powr li komunoti otokton a travayr li ten sonb afin kon ni kapab trasi di shmin l’bor d’in miyewr futchur.
Robyn Adams is a Red River Métis citizen of the Manitoba Métis Federation. Her Métis family is from la Rochelle and St. Pierre-Jolys, Manitoba. Currently a dual Master of Architecture and Landscape Architecture student at the University of British Columbia, living as a guest on the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, Sel̓íl̓witulh. She is a multidisciplinary artist working between Vancouver and her home territory in Winnipeg. Robyn enjoys fishing, medicine picking, beadwork, and making things with her hands. Robyn’s work synchronously exists in the ethos of Audre Lorde’s ‘quality of light,’ in which she interrogates relationship with the land and water through the intricate weaving of Indigenous histories, knowledge, ceremony, art and architecture. Robyn seeks to create architecture of poetic joy, alongside the matriarchs that have helped steward a sense of home for Indigenous communities through the dark times so that we may be able to forge paths into brighter futures.