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Treaty Space

Queer affections to remedy the unseeable
Museum Queeries Cluster, Thinking Through the Museum

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Treaty Space Gallery, 1107 Marginal Rd.

Group exhibition

Mahlet Cuff, Curator

Adrienne Huard, Curator

“Without community, there is no liberation…but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.” 

—The Master's Tools Will Never Dismantle the Master's House, Audre Lorde

Who has access to queer spaces, and what happens when they start disappearing? Making connections between shortages of queer spaces in both Winnipeg and Halifax, this exhibition aims to create its own queer liminal environment in support of Black, brown, and Indigenous 2SLGBTQIA++ communities. Acknowledging the profound queer histories of these two mid-sized city centers, we commit to the urgency to highlight voices that have been excluded and erased from histories, and uplift those who have been left out. From drag performances, music videos, photography, and installations, Treaty Space Gallery is transformed by artists from both Winnipeg and the Atlantic region into a multidimensional space that illustrates our diverse and expansive queer creative expressions while leaving room to learn about the functionality and growth of the queer Halifax community.