Kuhlein Migue: Reconfigurations of Home

RISE Emerging Artist 2024, artsPlace, Canmore

Pictured (left to right): In the shade of the chico tree and Nanay’s Garden (2024) by Kuhlein Migue

Kuhlein Migue
Reconfigurations of Home

October 5 – November 7, 2024
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 5, 1pm
artsPlace, Canmore

Kuhlein Migue, a recent graduate of the Visual Arts program at University of Calgary invites you to attend the opening reception of Reconfigurations of Home. Presented as part of the 2024 RISE Emerging Artist Program at artsPlace, Canmore, this exhibition explores narratives of home and belonging shared by Filipinos in Canada.

Migue narrates fragmented stories through her landscape paintings that combine memories and old photographs from her upbringing in the Philippines. Some of these reimagined landscapes are cut up and woven into a banig, conveying that home is constantly recreated to foster a sense of belonging amidst experiences of exclusion. Her representations of what ‘home’ is reflect the uncertainties and resilience of finding belonging as an individual in the diaspora.

Muddy Hands and Climbing Trees (2024) by Kuhlein Migue

This body of work also touches on the historical processes that set the conditions of non-belonging experienced by Filipinos in the diaspora. Many of today’s diasporic communities are products of historic relationships arising out of colonization. This body of work narrates the long period of colonial and imperial rule in the Philippines to the present-day barriers that disrupt Filipinos’ sense of identity and belonging.

We invite you to attend the opening reception of this new RISE Emerging Artist Exhibition on Saturday, October 5 at 1:00 p.m. at artsPlace, Canmore. Please join us for a complimentary beverage and light refreshments, and to hear Kuhlein Migue speak about her work that examines the complexities of home and belonging among the Filipino diaspora in Canada.

Reimagined Landscapes: Invasive Plants Series (2023) by Kuhlein Migue

About the Artist

Kuhlein Migue is a visual artist currently based in Calgary. She draws inspiration from Filipino art history and movements including Abstract Expressionism and Impressionism. Her studio-based research examines how spaces of belonging are reimagined in response to historical and contemporary practices that categorize racialized individuals as the “other.” Through painting, drawing and weaving, she complicates ideas of home, memory, and belonging while addressing the broader implications of colonialism in shaping global histories and contemporary experiences. Migue holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Visual Studies from the University of Calgary.

About artsPlace

artsPlace is a vibrant, welcoming space where Bow Valley residents and visitors can gather to discover, explore, and celebrate the arts and culture through a full range of classes, workshops, camps, live performances, films, exhibits, and community events.

artsPlace
950 8th Avenue
Canmore, AB T1W 2T1
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Accessibility:
The artsPlace gallery space is fully accessible, with wide doorways, a level entrance, automatic doors, and an accessible all gender washroom.

Sponsored by RBC. Participating artists will build experience in exhibition design, installation, marketing and business skills and professional practice. This program will foster community awareness of contemporary arts and work to prepare emerging artists for a professional career in the arts.