The Vancouver Latin American Cultural Centre (VLACC), in collaboration with Trout Lake Community Centre, is proud to present an exhibition featuring the works of Colombian artist Juliana Silva. Join us from August 1 to August 31 at the Trout Lake Community Centre to experience the captivating world of Juliana Silva’s art, where textiles come alive with cultural narratives and vibrant histories. Exhibition curated by Miret Rodriguez.

Date: From August 1st to August 31st, 2024
Time: Monday.to Friday from 9:00 am to 9:45 pm – Saturdays and Sundays from 8:00 am – 4:45 pm
Location: Trout Lake Community Centre – Display Vitrine Case – 3360 Victoria Drive Vancouver, BC V5N 4M4

Free event. No registration is required.

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About the Project

“Dance Forms in the Street” is an interactive art project that delves into street carnivals and festivals’ celebratory and healing origins. This project aims to immerse visitors in carnivals and street celebrations, showcasing their cultural significance through textiles, sound installations, and stop-motion animation. Inspired by various carnivals and celebrations in Colombia, the project highlights the connection between dance, music, and the collective joy experienced in these festivities.

Artist Statement

“I explore various materials in my art practice, considering them cultural symbols. To explore their symbolic meanings, I approach materiality through everyday objects, such as textiles and garments. These symbolic meanings can be difficult to extract as they change depending on the object’s function within each culture. I aim to decode these symbolic values and investigate their cultural connotations, revealing the hidden layers of meaning and stories within these objects. Textiles are powerful objects that can reveal much about politics, power dynamics, the economy, culture, and society. By exploring the small stories of textiles intertwined in our daily lives, I seek to create pieces that tell a story and provoke thought”.

About the artist and the curator

Juliana Silva is a Vancouver-based visual artist, art educator, and researcher originally from Colombia. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University of Art & Design and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from The National University of Colombia. In 2022, she was a grant recipient from The Canada Council for the Arts in the Component Research and Creation. In 2019, she was awarded The Andrea Brussa Master Artist Endowment Award from The Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and attended The Creative Gesture: Designing for Dance residency. Silva participated in an academic exchange at Concordia University in Montreal. She has exhibited her work in Colombia and Canada, working with various mediums such as sculpture, installation, photography, painting, and animation. Her research explores material culture and its relationship to cultural and political histories.

Miret Rodriguez is the creative director of Curated Tastes and is the former VP of VLACC. She holds an MBA in art and culture management from the Superior School of Commerce in Paris and a BA Major in Art History from UBC. Miret relies on art and the artists that make it to navigate through cultural dislocation and hybridity. Since 2020, Miret has been interviewing Latinx artists in Canada about their immigration stories and their ways of expressing their experiences through art. This led her to curate Volver (to return, to become) in 2022 at Cityscape Community Artspace in North Vancouver.

In partnership with Trout Lake Community Centre and Curated Tastes

With the support of Canada Council of the Arts