Krystle Silverfox and Tanya Zilinski at the Alternator
Krystle Silverfox, Raven <lite>, 2024, Image courtesy of the artists.
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is pleased to present two exciting new exhibitions: low-rez by Krystle Silverfox, and Transcendence by Tanya Zilinski, on view from May 30 through July 11, 2025.
In the Alternator Main Gallery low-rez, or low-resolution, pays homage to low-tech media and mediums. In this exhibition, Krystle Silverfox honours the intersections of Indigenous storytelling, new media, Indigenous futurism, and available consumer technologies. low-rez celebrates storytelling through light based mediums, shape shifting and optical illusion, coding, and glitch photography. Together, the works create the synergy of futurism combined with low-key visuals, Northern Lights, and Northwest Coast First Nations aesthetics.
Tanya Zilinski, Éwe lit st’li ta’ s’ewiwes (We Don’t Need your constitution), 2025. Image courtesy of the artist
In the Project Gallery Tanya Zilinski presents Transcendence, a series of large, loom beaded tapestries. Tanya uses traditional loom beadwork to pass on cultural knowledge, language, and oral stories, as well as to maintain a spiritual connection to their Ancestors and as a daily tincture to heal both body and mind. Through experimentation, they have developed their own methods and techniques for creating large loom-beaded tapestries that unite two cultures, complementing one another, for the next seven generations and beyond, for both community and family.
In their own words “I am at oneness while I am creating, and this process has gifted me a new perspective on life. It is with great gratitude that I acknowledge this canoe journey has guided me to a good place and the Ancestors will continue paddling alongside me to help me navigate through the waters.”
Transcendence is made possible through support from the Canada Council for the Arts.
Both low-rez and Transcendence will be on at the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art from May 30 to July 11, 2025.
About the Artists
Krystle Silverfox is a Selkirk First Nation (Wolf Clan) interdisciplinary visual artist living and working on the traditional territories of the Kwanlin Dün First Nation and Ta’an Kwach’an Council (Whitehorse, Yukon). Silverfox holds both a BFA in Visual Art (2015); a BA in Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice from UBC (2013); also an MFA in Interdisciplinary studies from Simon Fraser University (2019). Inspired by a material-focused practice, Silverfox uses visual mediums to communicate ideas and tell stories. Silverfox’s work explores concepts of Indigenous futurism, feminism, activism, and de-colonialism.
Tanya Zilinski, also known as SpeplĂłl (“Little Crow”), is a visual artist, Halq’emĂ©ylem teacher, and family Matriarch. They are a member of The Red River Nation in Manitoba, with Anishinaabe, Cree, Dakota, and Huron Wendat ancestry on their material side, and is Ukrainian paternally. Born and raised in Ts’qĂł:ls (Hope, B.C.), on Chowethel territory, they specialize in traditional Indigenous loom beadwork, using it to retell oral stories and teachings. Taught by a StĂł:lĹŤ Elder at age 15, they’ve since developed advanced techniques for large-scale beadwork. Deeply rooted in the StĂł:lĹŤ community in the TeltĂyt Tribe area, they teach Halq’emĂ©ylem language across School District 78.
About the Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is a non-profit artist-run centre founded in 1989. We leverage knowledge, expertise, empathy and resources to support creative projects that nurture our community.
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art respectfully acknowledges its presence on the unceded territory of the syilx (Okanagan) people.
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Accessibility:
The Alternator Centre for Contemporary Art is situated within the Rotary Centre for the Arts, which is fully accessible.
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