Conversation with artists Bria Fernandes and Ekene Maduka
Winnipeg-based artist Bria Fernandes creates introspective paintings that explore her social, cultural, and personal experiences as a Black woman in Canada. By revisiting specific memories, Fernandes considers complex thoughts and feelings such as self-doubt, anxiety and displacement that emerge from the specificity of racialized and diasporic communities. Her large-scale tableaus are abundant with a cast of often expressionless figures tethered to one another and to symbolic objects and animals. The result are layered narratives that speak to the intricacies and intersections of individual and collective lived experiences within diasporic communities.
The exhibition includes an interpretive text by Winnipeg artist Ekene Maduka.
Join us for this public conversation between Fernandes and Maduka.