How does the land hold memory? This exhibition brings together four artists who explore their environments through movement and kinetic spirit, holding space for relationships and community with humans, non-humans and the land.

Françoise Sullivan encourages us to play and experiment, while considering how we move our bodies with and through the seasons. Agnes Martin shares a formula for beauty and connectedness through her meditative lines and grids. Jaime Black-Morsette asks us to think about the absence of collective memory, with a particular focus on past, present, and future life on this land. FadaDance Troupe offers a visceral guide to gratitude and remembrance in their choreographic interpretation of the prairie.

Through dance, printmaking, installation, and photography, these artists invite us to consider all that we count among our relations; the natural world and all that it holds. This exhibition is one of the MacKenzie Art Gallery’s contributions to the Great Plains series of triennial programming in collaboration with Remai Modern in Saskatoon.

ABOUT THE GATHERING THE GREAT PLAINS SERIES

This exhibition is part of the Gathering The Great Plains series—a partnership and program by MacKenzie Art Gallery and Remai Modern that features exhibitions, thoughtful panel discussions, and opportunities for community engagement. Centred on themes of movement, borders, and migration, the series positions the Great Plains as a gathering force—a witness and participant shaped by the stories it holds. Guided by the impetus to bring to light narratives that have long been overlooked, the series centres the voices of marginalized and racialized communities and offers space for reflection, dialogue, and the possibility of renewed relationships with each other and the land.

Gathering the Great Plains is supported by the Terra Foundation for American Art.