Please join us for the opening celebration of Ba’oya Hubuk’esi; I Love Them By the Edge by Vance Wright on Thursday January 22, 2026. This program is free and open to all.

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 will feature 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 will expand across media—through film, photography, language and sound—to address the ways in which relations to territory and community shape Indigiqueer identity.

As a registered reconnecting two-spirit member of the Tl’azt’en Nation, Wright engages plurality on multiple fronts, exploring what it means to cultivate relationships with territories that are beyond what is known as one’s home or homeland, the feeling of familiarity within and beyond the contours of biological familial connection, and the expanding bounds of queering land-based Indigenous art.

Ba’oya Hubuk’esi; I Love Them By the Edge will be the first solo presentation of all artworks within the exhibition, including the premiere of a newly commissioned filmwork Keyoh: beneath the feet, a walking performance, photographs, and several sculptures that invite future audience activation.