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Indigenous women are at the centre of #callresponse, a new exhibition opening Saturday at TRUCK Contemporary Art in Calgary and Stride Gallery.

The touring exhibition, which started with five site-specific works (the call) and invited artists to engage with the pieces at each of its seven gallery stops (the response), began at the grunt gallery in Vancouver in 2016. It’s the concept of Tarah Hogue, a Vancouver-based curator. She was researching Indigenous feminism when Canada Council for the Arts launched {Re}conciliation to promote artistic collaboration through a temporary granting program. Hogue approached Maria Hupfield and Tania Willard, who created two of the initial pieces for #callresponse, and it went from there.

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“It really developed around how we wanted to use the opportunity of having this slightly higher level of funding to support the work that other Indigenous women artists were doing across the country, as a way of maybe approaching the conversation around reconciliation in a more roundabout way,” says Hogue. “Not one that really talks about reconciling relationships between Indigenous people and Canada, but thinking about how vital and radical and significant the work of Indigenous women is and how that can really lend to shaping a dialogue in a different kind of way.”