Photo: City of Vancouver
Revitalizing Our Connections - photo by City of Vancouver
Olympic Village Station
W 2nd & Cambie Street
Civic
2024
Two-dimensional artwork
In place
Platforms: Nine Places for Seeing
Description of work

PlatformsNine Places for Seeing is a series of temporary public art projects that presented from June 2023 until the end of 2025.

PlatformsNine Places for Seeing commissioned 21 local xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh), and urban Indigenous artists. 

Selected artworks were displayed on the following platforms: 

  • Billboards along 6th Avenue between Arbutus and Fir 
  • Light box at šxʷƛ̓ exən Xwtl’a7shn Plaza  
  • Banners at Vancouver Public Library, Central Branch  
  • Glass wall at City Centre Canada Line Station  
  • Transit shelter posters throughout the city 
  • VanLive! video screen, Robson St and Granville St 
  • Glass wall at Marine Drive Canada Line Station 
  • Windows at the Queen Elizabeth Theatre 
  • Windows at the Vancouver Playhouse 
  • Glass Wall at Olympic Village Canada Line Station
  • Glass Wall at King Edward Canada Line Station
Artist statement

Revitalizing Our Connections is exhibited on the Olympic Village Canada Line Station from September 2024 - March 2025.

“When our lands, rivers, lakes, and the Salish sea are healthy, our people are healthy."

I am deeply inspired witnessing and taking part in the work my community (Tsleil-Waututh) has led in stewarding and restoring the health of our territory. There have been plants and animal kin that have returned and many rebuilt connections to the ecosystems around us. Our livelihood has always relied on an interdependence of many faunas and flora, many of which have disappeared from our lands and waters in the last century and a half. My intention is to pay tribute to those species we have helped bring back in recent years.

This work has and is being led by Tsleil-Waututh people in many different forms along with the assistance of other organizations and supportive groups. The overall goal is to re-establish a healthy relationship with the environment around us because we too come from the land.

 

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