Encrypted Identities, Decoded Histories -Opening- Heidi Bergstrom and Adryan Bergstrom-Borins

Encrypted Identities, Decoded Histories
Opening July 11, 2025
Continues Sat/Sundays until July 27, 2025

Artist Talk, Sunday, July 20th – 2pm

Register for the talk via Online Link here (Google Meet): https://forms.gle/ZQfgw4cSAdQxAdox8

In Encrypted Identities, Decoded History, Heidi Bergstrom (she/her), in collaboration with her eldest daughter Adryan Bergstrom-Borins (she/her), create an installation comprised of thematic works in textiles, beading, multimedia video projections, audio, photography, and texts that reflect and attempt to reconcile the artists’ intersecting histories of their Icelandic and Red River Métis ancestry. The underlying narrative of the work seeks to understand and respect, acknowledge past wrongs, contradictions, and conflicts, and to honour and recognize the people, conditions, and histories in a colonial context.

The work is one installation comprised of several parts, in a variety of media from textiles to traditional beading to video mapping, which were created in Iceland, Spain, Netherlands, and in Canada in Dinosaur Provincial Park (Alberta), Manitoba (Gimli), and British Columbia (Metchosin). The creation of this installation has required extensive research, collaboration, experimentation, and learning.

See More at: https://xchangesgallery.org/heidi-bergstrom-adryan-bergstrom-borins/

You may also like the following events from Xchanges Gallery and Studios:

• Next Friday, 11th July, 07:00 pm, Exhibition - Encrypted Identities, Decoded Histories in Victoria
• This month, 20th July, 02:00 pm, ARTIST TALK - Encrypted Identities, Decoded Histories in Victoria

Also check out other Arts events in Victoria.