Public Art Registry
wîskwêpitâkan: Sacred Bundle
Artwork has been removed.
Photo: Soloman Chiniquay
wîskwêpitâkan: Sacred Bundle - photo by Soloman Chiniquay
Twenty (20) transit shelter advertisement locations throughout the city
The artwork has been removed from this location.
Civic
2023
Ink on paper
Two-dimensional artwork
No longer 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

wîskwêpitâkan: Sacred Bundle presented on twenty transit-shelter posters throughout the city from July 3 - August 13, 2023. 

Adele ᒪᐢᑿᓱᐤᐏᐢᑵᐤ Arseneau’s piece wîskwêpitâkan: Sacred Bundle consists of photographs of four miniature cradleboards and beaded moss bags taken from a larger series of 161 miniatures she created to acknowledge the children who were forcibly enrolled at one of the 140 institutions that were listed in the Canadian Residential School Settlement Agreement. The entire project took over two years to complete and in Adele’s own estimation required 5152 stitches, 35,000 beads and almost 7 animal hides.  The work is contemplative, a reclamation of traditional skills and values and a delicate offering from Adele to her larger community still struggling with this colonial legacy

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