- Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) –Vance Wright
- Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) –Vance Wright
- Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) –Vance Wright
- Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge) –Vance Wright
Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge)
Vance Wright
22 January–
2 May 2026
Curated by: Jenn Jackson
Image Credit: Vance Wright, Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By The Edge) (still), 2025, video with sound, 5:00 min. Courtesy of the Artist.
Ba’oya Hubuk’esi (I Love Them By the Edge)
Vance Wright
Curated by: Jenn Jackson
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.
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) is 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.
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Artist Bio
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.

