#HopeAndHealingCanada Installation, Tracey-Mae Chambers

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Métis artist Tracey-Mae Chambers brings her site-specific art installation #hopeandhealingcanada to Riverside Park. Visitors can view the installation 24/7 near the Marilyn Drive entrance.

Tracey-Mae Chambers threads connections between people, communities, and the environment. With this work, the artist responds to our individual and collective experiences of the pandemic and of the discoveries of the remains of Indigenous children buried at former Residential Schools.

Themes of hope and healing drive Chambers’ work as she symbolically reconnects a fractured society with tangled webs of red yarn. The colour red represents blood, passion, anger, courage and love.

#hopeandhealingcanada invites visitors to engage with the idea of connection, asking how communities can move forward to heal and support one another through traumatic and life-altering events.

“The yarn is used to illustrate connections between people and their environment and each other,” says Chambers. “More specifically, the connections between First Nations, Inuit and Métis is called into question considering that they are somehow outside of the general Canadian community. The thought of decolonizing spaces is also a major factor in this project.”

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City of Guelph Museums & Culture

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* Collect and protect artifacts, artworks and stories that reflect our community

* Share the collections and stories − locally, nationally and internationally − through exhibition, interpretation, and online access

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* Cultivate a connection to place, with focus on the tangible and intangible cultural landscape unique to Guelph

Guelph Museums and Culture is pleased to commission this activation for Culture Days in support of our local artists and in service of our local community and beyond.

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