City of Victoria Artist in Residence, Kemi Craig, has brought her art to a storefront window in downtown Victoria.
Over the next month, Kemi will be curating video projections for the storefront of a retail space at 707 Douglas Street. Currently, the windows feature a series of video loops from a live performance presented by Kemi for Dance Victoria’s Dance Days in 2022 entitled the space between.
The series features video loops of close-up body parts in motion. By breaking the expectation and satisfaction of the act of looking and seeing the body in its entirety, Kemi hopes to create a pause and perhaps the thought that we never experience any individual in their wholeness, that but we can get to know one small part of them in greater detail.
Kemi Craig is a Victoria-based dancer and visual artist and is Victoria’s third Artist in Residence. Through her lived experience as a woman of African descent, Kemi’s art uses dance, analogue and digital visual technologies to centre experiences for people with racialized and gendered bodies.
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