Closing Celebration
Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge):
Closing Celebration
2 May 2026
3:00pm-5:00pm
Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) opening celebration at Or Gallery, January 22, 2026. Photo: Dani Costelo.
Please join us for the Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) closing celebration on Saturday, May 2, from 3:00pm-5:00pm. Refreshments will be served.
Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) is an exhibition that explores the plurality of queer Indigenous intimacy and erotics alongside connections to family, community, and territory. The exhibition features four interrelated filmworks and a series of photographs that document multiple activations of place through co-authored performances with the artist’s collaborative partners. The performative activations expand across media—through film, photography, language and sound—to address the ways in which relations to territory and community shape Indigiqueer identity.
Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) is on view at Or Gallery until Saturday, May 2, 2026.
Participant Bios
Vance Wright
Vance Wright (they/them) is a reconnecting two-spirit member of the Tl’azt’en Nation, and was raised on the unceded territories of the Sinixt Nation in what is colonially known as Nelson BC. Currently residing in the occupied and unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm, Sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and səlilwətaɬ Nations in Vancouver, they are an emerging artist, curator and writer. They hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts from Emily Carr University, with a major in Critical and Cultural Practices and a minor in Curatorial Studies. Their artwork has been exhibited in the Contemporary Native Art Biennial (BACA), as well as artist-run centres such as Massy Arts Society or Oxygen Art Centre.